Multiple Giant Intracranial Aneurysms Associated with Lymphomatoid Granulomatosis: A Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Angiographic Study
Author(s) -
Capone Patrick M,
Mechtler Laszlo L,
Bates Vernice E,
Kanna Arvo,
Kinkel Peter R.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
journal of neuroimaging
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1552-6569
pISSN - 1051-2284
DOI - 10.1111/jon199442109
Subject(s) - lymphomatoid granulomatosis , medicine , magnetic resonance imaging , pathology , vasculitis , pathological , magnetic resonance angiography , radiology , lymphoma , disease
Lymphomatoid granulomatosis is an uncommon lymphoproliferative disorder that frequently has central nervous system manifestations. Lymphomatoid granulomatosis has clinical features similar to both vasculitis and lymphoma. The pathological hallmarks of this disease include necrotic angiecentric and angiodestructive infiltrations of premalignant or malignant lymphoid cells. There are, to the authors' knowledge, only a few magnetic resonance imaging reports and no magnetic resonance angiographic reports of this disorder. Presented here is a case of lymphomatoid granulomatosis producing multiple giant fusiform and saccular aneurysms throughout the major intracerebral arteries, along with patterns of vascular beading typically seen with vasculitis demonstrated by magnetic resonance angiography.