PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Rogers, D.M.
AU  - Peckham, M.E.
AU  - Shah, L.M.
AU  - Wiggins, R.H.
TI  - Association of Developmental Venous Anomalies with Demyelinating Lesions in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis
AID  - 10.3174/ajnr.A5374
DP  - 2018 Jan 01
TA  - American Journal of Neuroradiology
PG  - 97--101
VI  - 39
IP  - 1
4099  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/39/1/97.short
4100  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/39/1/97.full
SO  - Am. J. Neuroradiol.2018 Jan 01; 39
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.DVAdevelopmental venous anomaly