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 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.

Venous Malformation (Angioma): T1-weighted with gadolinium MRI scans; (Left and Middle) axial; (Right) coronal. Note the enhancing vascular structure adjacent in the right cerebellum. This lesion is a ...

Venous Malformation (Angioma): (Left) T1-weighted axial MRI; (Right) T2-weighted axial MRI. Note the abnormal signal adjacent to the corpus callosum and beneath the cingulate gryus. The signal is dark ...

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 ...