The connection takes place in a focused collection of abnormal vessels called the AVM nidus. These lesions represent about 20 percent of spinal vascular malformations and can present with bleeding ...

A new imaging technique is helping ultra-powerful MRI scanners detect tiny differences in the brains of patients with ...

Depending on a range of factors including patient age, number of cavernous malformations, lesion size, location within critical or non-critical areas of the brain or spinal cord, presence of other ...

Carbonell, W. S., Ansorge, O., Sibson, N. & Muschel, R. The vascular basement membrane as “soil” in brain metastasis. PLoS One 4, e5857 (2009). An assumption ...

In MS, slowly expanding lesions were linked to more myelin loss in brain regions of damage and in normal-appearing brain ...

Every year, millions of people die from stroke. In order to win against this disease which occurs the moment when a blood vessel is blocked in brain, a POSTECH research team made a breakthrough with a ...

In atherosclerosis, the vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC ... muscle cell in the natural history of the atherosclerotic lesion seems to be to act as a nidus for development of the lesions ...

Brain as one gets older, can develop problems like white matter lesions. White matter lesions suggest small vessel diseases, which are connected with cognitive decline, vascular dementia ...