Cavernous hemangioma - brain

Case contributed by Frank Gaillard
Diagnosis certain
mri

Selected axial images from an MRI demonstrate typical appearances of a cavernous hemangioma (cavernoma) with a circumscribed lesion with heterogeneous signal but profound signal loss and blooming on gradient echo. No evidence of surrounding edema to suggest a recent bleed. 

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