Cavernoma

Case contributed by Hani Makky Al Salam
Diagnosis almost certain

Presentation

Seizure

Patient Data

Age: 30
Gender: Female
ct

A heterogeneous region of signal increase is seen in the left temporal lobe. 

mri

In the left temporal lobe is a lesion with surrounding low T2* signal and heterogeneous internal signal. Features are characteristic of a cavernous malformation (cavernoma). 

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