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Cerebral cavernous venous malformation

Case contributed by Marlon Garcia H
Diagnosis certain

Presentation

Seizures

Patient Data

Age: 3 years
Gender: Female

Within the right frontal lobule, a lesion with profound signal loss due to hemosiderin is noted and a "popcorn appearance", characteristic of a cavernous malformation (cavernoma). 

Popcorn sign

Annotated image

The appearances of a cavernoma have been likened to a popcorn kernel. 

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