¹Radiology department, French Medical Institute for Children (FMIC), Kabul, Afghanistan.

²Radiology department, Ali Abad Teaching Hospital, Kabul, Afghanistan.

Corresponding Author: Mohammad Nawaz Nasery, Ali Abad Teaching Hospital Kabul, Afghanistan, Tel: +93 20 250 0522; E-Mail: [email protected]

Received Date: 03 Aug 2016   
Accepted Date: 11 Nov 2016   
Published Date: 14 Nov 2016

Copyright © 2016 Nasery MN

Citation: Nasery MN, Hamidi H, Najah DM, Sadiqi J. et al. (2016). CT Features of Galen Vein Aneurysm. Mathews J Case Rep 1(4): 018.

 

ABSTRACT

Vein of Galen malformations (VOGMs) are very rare intracranial vascular defects. VOGMs are well defined, rounded, intracranial space occupying lesions located within the cistern of velum interpositum. Patients may have headache, seizures, proptosis, cyanosis, hydrocephalus, developmental delay and focal neurological deficits.
Antenatal and postnatal ultrasound is the primary diagnostic tool for detecting VOGMs. Both CT and MRI can be used to delineate the malformations cross-sectionally. CT angiography is another diagnostic modality but is technically challenging in neonates with high output cardiac failure due to small volume of contrast passing rapidly through the circulation and for vascular anatomy MR angiography would be a better diagnostic tool. Angiography remains the gold standard for full characterisation of the lesion.
In this study brain CT of an eight-month-old boy showed typical well defined, rounded, isodense space occupying lesion in the midline resulting in massive hydrocephalus.

 

KEYWORDS

Vein of Galen Malformations; Vein of Galen Aneurysm; CT-Scan.