A rare type of brain blood vessel malformation known as a cavernous angioma affects more than one million Americans and carries a lifetime risk of stroke and seizures. Only around one-third of cases ...

Cavernous malformations, also known as "cavernous angiomas," "cavernous hemangiomas" or just "cavernomas" are clusters of tightly packed abnormal blood vessels surrounded by normal brain tissue.

A rare type of brain blood vessel malformation known as a cavernous angioma affects more than one million Americans and carries a lifetime risk of stroke and seizures. Only around one-third of cases ...

A careful search for segmentally related cutaneous hemangiomas in a series of 28 patients with spinal-cord arteriovenous malformations revealed six with such an association, a much higher prevalence ...

Venous Malformation (Angioma): Cerebral angiogram, left carotid injection, venous phase; (Left) AP view; (Right) Oblique view. Note the abnormal venous structure draining into the inferior sagittal ...

A new study found that specific genetic mutations occurring in just the right locations in the brain are behind the formation of cavernous angiomas, which can bleed and cause strokes and seizures. A ...