Developmental venous anomaly

Developmental venous anomaly in the cerebellum seen on axial contrast-enhanced T1 weighted MRI.

A developmental venous anomaly (DVA, formerly known as venous angioma) is a congenital variant of the cerebral venous drainage. On imaging it is seen as a number of small deep parenchymal veins converging toward a larger collecting vein.

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