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Repeated Intracerebral Hemorrhage from Developmental Venous Anomaly Alone

  • Ku, Min-Geun (Department of Neurosurgery, Wallace Memorial Baptist Hospital) ;
  • Rhee, Dong-Youl (Department of Neurosurgery, Wallace Memorial Baptist Hospital) ;
  • Park, Hwa-Seung (Department of Neurosurgery, Wallace Memorial Baptist Hospital) ;
  • Kim, Dae-Neung (Department of Neurosurgery, Veterans Hospital)
  • Published : 2009.01.28
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Abstract

Developmental venous anomalies (DVAs) are hemodynamically low flow, low resistance vascular malformations without clinical significance. Although most DVAs are asymptomatic and are found incidentally, sometimes they can be symptomatic with intracerebral hemorrhage, many of which are usually caused by associated cavernous malformations (CMs) rather than the DVAs themselves. Only a few cases have been reported in the literature where an intracerebral hemorrhage has been caused by a DVA alone. This report describes a case of an intracerebral hemorrhage due to DVA alone with review of the literature.

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