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Hemangioma, Cavernous, Central Nervous System

"Hemangioma, Cavernous, Central Nervous System" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

A vascular anomaly composed of a collection of large, thin walled tortuous VEINS that can occur in any part of the central nervous system but lack intervening nervous tissue. Familial occurrence is common and has been associated with a number of genes mapped to 7q, 7p and 3q. Clinical features include SEIZURES; HEADACHE; STROKE; and progressive neurological deficit.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Hemangioma, Cavernous, Central Nervous System" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Hemangioma, Cavernous, Central Nervous System" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 34 publications over 19 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2011 and 2016 and 2017 and 2023
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.