Case of the Week
Section Editors: Matylda Machnowska1 and Anvita Pauranik2
1University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2BC Children's Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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January 8, 2015
Capillary Telangiectasia
- Capillary telangiectasias are vascular malformations that are generally asymptomatic and are usually found incidentally on MRI.
- Most ofen seen in the pons
- Occult on catheter angiograms
- Key Diagnostic Features
- Slightly increased signal intensity on T2WI
- Low signal intensity on GRE due to the presence of deoxyhemoglobin in slow-flowing blood
- Faint "brush-like" or "stipple" pattern of enhancement
- DDx
- Cavernoma
- Metastasis
- Trauma
- Rx: Incidental finding (no treatment)