Cavernous malformation (CM), also known as cavernous angioma, cavernous hemangioma or cavernoma, is a highly vascular lesion that can be found anywhere in the body.
1-5) We report a case of acute-onset unilateral tinnitus related to an acute hemorrhage of a small cavernous angioma in the contralateral temporal lobe.
Spinal intramedullary cavernous angioma associated with hematomyelia: case report with sequential MRI follow-up and histological verification of hematoidin deposits.
In the world literature there are many names for this same pathology: extra-cranial cavernous hemangioma, extra-cranial cavernous angioma, cavernous hemangioma of the cavernous sinus, hemangioma of the middle fossa, adenoma of the cavernous sinus (5,15,21,24,26).