title: Giant cavernous haemangioma in an infant.
abstract: Cavernous haemangiomas are benign vascular lesions of the central nervous system. Their size varies from a few millimetres to several centimetres. Giant and paediatric cases are rare. This report presents a 10-month-old baby with a giant multilobular cavernous haemangioma in the left parietal lobe who presented with seizures.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Neurosurgery, Duzce University, Duzce Medical Faculty, Duzce, Turkey.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Gezen
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Karatas
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Is
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Yildirim
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Aytekin
mesh_terms: D002528:Cerebellar Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D020786:Hemangioma, Cavernous, Central Nervous System / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D010291:Paresis / Q000209:etiology; D012640:Seizures / Q000209:etiology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome