title: Diagnosis of a Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformation Using Isolated Brain Computed Tomography Angiography: Case Report.
abstract: This report presents a case of a 40-year-old woman who was found dead in her house. The examination of the body revealed no external injuries. The whole body was scanned by multi-detector-row computed tomography (CT) before autopsy, revealing massive hemorrhage in the right frontal extending into the ventricular system. At autopsy, the brain parenchyma was removed. Then CT angiography was carried on the isolated brain. Computed tomography angiography suggested a mass of irregular, tortuous vessels in areas of hemorrhage in the right frontal lobe of the brain. Finally, histological examination confirmed the result of CT angiography due to an arteriovenous malformation. Hence, postmortem CT angiography played an important role in diagnosis of the cerebral arteriovenous malformation that was responsible for a massive hemorrhage in the skull.
authors.affiliation: From the Shanghai Key Laboratory of Forensic Medicine, Institute of Forensic Science, Ministry of Justice, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Hui
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Qian
authors.forename: Yu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shao
authors.forename: Zhengdong
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Ping
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Donghua
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Zou
authors.forename: Ningguo
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Yijiu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Lei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002543:Cerebral Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology*; D000072226:Computed Tomography Angiography; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D002538:Intracranial Arteriovenous Malformations / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*