Central Nervous System Venous Angioma
Synonyms
Angioma, Cerebral Venous
Angioma, Intracranial Venous
Angioma, Venous, Central Nervous System
Angiomas, Cerebral Venous
Angiomas, Intracranial Venous
Cerebral Venous Angioma
Cerebral Venous Angiomas
Intracranial Venous Angioma
Intracranial Venous Angiomas
Venous Angioma, Central Nervous System
Venous Angioma, Cerebral
Venous Angioma, Intracranial
Venous Angiomas, Cerebral
Venous Angiomas, Intracranial
A vascular anomaly characterized by a radial or wedge-shaped arrangement of dilated VEINS draining into a larger vein in the brain, spinal cord, or the meninges. Veins in a venous angioma are surrounded by normal nervous tissue, unlike a CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM CAVERNOUS HEMANGIOMA that lacks intervening nervous tissue. Drainage of venous angioma is fully integrated with the body's venous system, therefore, in most cases there is no clinical signs and rare bleeding.