PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - D.M. Rogers
AU  - M.E. Peckham
AU  - L.M. Shah
AU  - R.H. Wiggins III
TI  - Association of Developmental Venous Anomalies with Demyelinating Lesions in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis
AID  - 10.3174/ajnr.A5374
DP  - 2017 Sep 14
TA  - American Journal of Neuroradiology
4099  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/early/2017/09/14/ajnr.A5374.short
4100  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/early/2017/09/14/ajnr.A5374.full
AB  - SUMMARY: We present 5 cases of demyelination in patients diagnosed with multiple sclerosis that are closely associated with a developmental venous anomaly. Although the presence of a central vein is a known phenomenon with multiple sclerosis plaques, demyelination occurring around developmental venous anomalies is an underreported phenomenon. Tumefactive demyelination can cause a diagnostic dilemma because of its overlapping imaging findings with central nervous system neoplasm. The relationship of a tumefactive plaque with a central vein can be diagnostically useful, and we suggest that if such a lesion is closely associated with a developmental venous anomaly, an inflammatory or demyelinating etiology should be a leading consideration.AbbreviationDVAdevelopmental venous anomaly