Possible significance of juvenile oral venous angioma as marker of intracerebral vascular lesion

✓ This 10-year-old child suffered a hemorrhage into the right parietal lobe, the result of a ruptured arteriovenous angioma. From birth, the boy had a venous angioma of the mucous membrane of the cheek, lower lip, and hypoglossal area on the right side. The coexistence of these two vascular defects is most unusual, and venous angioma in early life may suggest the presence of cerebral angioma.

Spontaneous disappearance of cerebral arteriovenous angioma

✓ The author reports a case in which a cerebral arteriovenous malformation disappeared completely and spontaneously within 3 years. Comparable cases from the literature are cited. The disappearance of the malformation may have been due to hemorrhagic episodes and the resulting thromboses.