CASE REPORTS   

Journal of Neurosurgical Sciences 2002 December;46(3-4):127-30

Copyright © 2002 EDIZIONI MINERVA MEDICA

language: English

Third ventricle cavernoma associated with venous angioma. Case report and review of the literature

Crivelli G. ¹, Dario A. ¹, Cerati M. ², Dorizzi A. ¹

¹ Neurosurgical Division, Varese Regional Hospital and Macchi Foundation, Varese, Italy; ² Service of Pathological Anatomy and Histology, Varese Regional Hospital and Macchi Foundation, Varese, Italy

A ­case of ­third ven­tri­cle cav­ern­ous angio­ma asso­ciat­ed ­with ­venous angio­ma is report­ed. By a trans­ven­tric­u­lar ­approach, the caver­no­ma was total­ly ­removed ­with suc­cess­ful pres­er­va­tion of the ­venous mal­for­ma­tion. After ­review of the lit­er­a­ture, the clin­i­cal char­ac­ter­is­tics and the sur­gi­cal ­approach to ­third ven­tri­cle cav­ern­ous angio­ma are dis­cussed; the impor­tance of pres­er­va­tion of asso­ciat­ed ­venous angio­ma is ­also under­lined.