Article
Familial cerebral cavernous angioma: clinical analysis of a family and phenotypic classification.
Epilepsy research - 1 May 1995
Gil-Nagel A, Wilcox K J, Stewart J M, Anderson V E, Leppik I E, Rich S S
Abstract excerpt
Only a few large families with cerebral cavernous angiomas (CCA) have been reported. We studied 47 members of a four-generation kindred with familial CCA. Thirteen members are affected; of these, eleven (85%) have epilepsy, five (38%) have hearing loss, three (23%) have clinically significant cer...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Age of Onset
- Aged
- Brain Neoplasms
- Cerebellum
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Family
- Female
- Frontal Lobe
- Genetic Linkage
- Hemangioma, Cavernous
- Humans
- Intracranial Arteriovenous Malformations
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Male
- Middle Aged
