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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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March 24, 2008
Giant Cavernous Malformation
- Prevalence in population of CMs: 0.4%
- Giant CMs are rare, may be infiltrative
- CMs may be sporadic or associated with previous irradiation, anomalous venous drainage, venous angioma (as in this case).
- Syndromes such as familial CMs (defects in chromosomes 7q21.2 & 7p15-p13) or metameric vascular ones
- Giant CMs: over 6 cm in diameter (in the literature most have been between 10-13 cm)
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