Title |
Association of Developmental Venous Anomalies with Demyelinating Lesions in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis
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Published in |
American Journal of Neuroradiology, September 2017
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DOI | 10.3174/ajnr.a5374 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
D.M. Rogers, M.E. Peckham, L.M. Shah, R.H. Wiggins |
Abstract |
We present 5 cases of demyelination in patients diagnosed with multiple sclerosis that are closely associated with a developmental venous anomaly. Although the presence of a central vein is a known phenomenon with multiple sclerosis plaques, demyelination occurring around developmental venous anomalies is an underreported phenomenon. Tumefactive demyelination can cause a diagnostic dilemma because of its overlapping imaging findings with central nervous system neoplasm. The relationship of a tumefactive plaque with a central vein can be diagnostically useful, and we suggest that if such a lesion is closely associated with a developmental venous anomaly, an inflammatory or demyelinating etiology should be a leading consideration. |
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