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cavernoma

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cavernoma.
cavernoma
cavernous hemangioma. See also hemangioma.


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Even the small amount of blood surrounding the cavernoma can cause irritation of the surrounding brain tissue, sometimes causing seizures.
Introductory chapters discuss history, radiobiology, and neuropathology of radiosurgery, followed by procedures for diseases such as arteriovenous malformations and fistulas, cavernomas, meningiomas, pituitary adenomas, trigeminal neuralgia, vestibular and nonvestibular schwannomas, movement disorders, epilepsy, ocular disorders, pediatric brain tumors, and brain metastases.
The 26-year-old was left with walking and speech difficulties after she was struck down with a brainstem cavernoma - bleed in the brain - while serving with the Royal Logistics Corps in Kosovo in 2002.
 
 
 
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