Capillary telangiectasia of the brain stem diagnosed by susceptibility-weighted imaging.
A case of brain stem capillary telangiectasia diagnosed by susceptibility-weighted imaging is reported. A small enhancing pontine lesion was found on postcontrast T1-weighted MR images in a 56-year-old woman with human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 infection. Imaging diagnosis was difficult with conventional MR imaging because the lesion did not show characteristic signal loss on conventional gradient-echo images. SWI was useful for imaging diagnosis as it demonstrated marked signal loss of the lesion.
Yoshida
Yuri
Y
Department of Radiology, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo 060-8638, Japan. yuriyo@nifty.com
Terae
Satoshi
S
Kudo
Kohsuke
K
Tha
Khin Khin
KK
Imamura
Masahiro
M
Miyasaka
Kazuo
K
D001933:Brain Stem / Q000098:blood supply*; D020785:Central Nervous System Vascular Malformations / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008875:Middle Aged