title: Case report: seizures in a child caused by a large venous angioma.
abstract: Cerebral venous angioma is a congenital anomaly of the medullary vein, the vessel that drains into the transparenchymal venous stem. This lesion is also referred to as a developmental venous anomaly. A few reports in the literature have documented developmental venous anomaly-related epilepsy, neurologic deficits, and intracranial hemorrhage. A 3-year-old boy was referred to our hospital after he sustained an afebrile, tonic-clonic, focal seizure of 15 minutes' duration that affected his right arm, leg, and eyebrow. Cerebral digital subtraction angiography showed a bilateral, large periventricular developmental venous anomaly. This report describes the clinical and radiologic findings for this large venous angioma that caused seizures in a child.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Baskent University Adana Teaching and Medical Research Center, Adana, Turkey. ayten_gumus@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Ayten
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gümüs
authors.forename: Selman Vefa
authors.initials: SV
authors.lastname: Yildirim
authors.forename: Osman
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Kizilkiliç
authors.forename: Nurcan
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Cengiz
authors.forename: Tuba
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Cemil
mesh_terms: D020787:Central Nervous System Venous Angioma / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D002533:Cerebral Angiography / Q000379:methods; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods; D008297:Male; D012640:Seizures / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology