A developmental venous anomaly presenting atypical findings on susceptibility-weighted imaging.
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Findings on Susceptibility-Weighted Imaging Developmental venous anomaly (DVA) is the most common type of vascular malformation found at autopsy, with a prevalence of 2%. DVA is composed of radially arranged venous complexes converging to a centrally located venous trunk, which drains the normal brain parenchyma. Susceptibility-weighted imaging (SWI) shows low signal intensity for DVA due to the blood oxygen level– dependent (BOLD) effect in the abnormal medullary and draining veins. SWI has been successfully proved to have better detectability of venous structures than conventional T2*-weighted imaging. Our letter will present a DVA that showed isointensity compared with the surrounding cerebral parenchyma on SWI. A 26-year-old man was referred to our institution due to an incidentally found DVA with no symptoms attributable to it. He underwent MR imaging examination, including SWI and MR angiography, in a 3T MR imaging scanner (Magnetom Trio; Siemens, Erlangen, Germany). MR imaging parameters of SWI were as follows: TR, 27 ms; TE, 20 ms; flip angle, 15°; FOV, 230 186 mm; matrix, 512 416; section thickness, 1.2 mm; 80 imaging sections; and scanning time, 6 minutes 50 seconds. Minimum intensity projection (MIP) images over 6 sections were created from phase and magnitude images. An MIP image of SWI showed a moderately low-signal-intensity structure corresponding to the draining vein; however, no low-signalintensity structures corresponding to medullary veins (Fig 1A) were seen. Low-signal-intensity structures corresponding to the cortical veins of the other lobes were clearly shown; however, no apparent signals of cortical veins in the left frontal lobe were identified. Postcontrast T1-weighted images at 1.5T obtained 2 days after precontrast images revealed enhanced medullary veins and a draining vein (Fig 1B). Signals on SWI are not compromised by low-velocity venous flow; therefore, SWI has successfully demonstrated low-flow vascular formations such as DVA. SWI at high-field MR imaging such as 3T allowed high-spatial-resolution images and better delineation of venous structures because the BOLD effect is related to the strength of the main magnetic field. In our case, SWI at 3T revealed no medullary veins of DVA, which implies that a relatively higher flow in the DVA reduced the amount of deoxyhemoglobin inside the DVA. Our letter will add some information for interpretation of imaging findings on SWI, especially in the case of DVA with relatively higher flow. Neuroradiologists should keep such exceptional findings in mind in the interpretation of SWI. This work was supported in part by a Health and Labour Sciences Research grant of Japan.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology
دوره 29 7 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2008