Elevated intracranial pressure from cerebral venous obstruction by Masson's vegetant intravascular hemangioendothelioma. Case report

D Y Wen; D R Hardten; J D Wirtschafter; J H Sung; S J Haines

doi:10.3171/jns.1991.75.5.0787

Elevated intracranial pressure from cerebral venous obstruction by Masson's vegetant intravascular hemangioendothelioma. Case report

J Neurosurg. 1991 Nov;75(5):787-90. doi: 10.3171/jns.1991.75.5.0787.

Authors

D Y Wen¹, D R Hardten, J D Wirtschafter, J H Sung, S J Haines

Affiliation

¹ Department of Neurosurgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

PMID: 1919704
DOI: 10.3171/jns.1991.75.5.0787

Abstract

The case is described of a 15-year-old girl with papilledema and visual obscurations caused by a rare lesion, Masson's vegetant intravascular hemangioendothelioma, within the venous sinus at the torcular herophili. This lesion impeded cranial venous outflow, leading to intracranial hypertension.

Publication types

Case Reports
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Brain Neoplasms / complications*
Brain Neoplasms / pathology
Cranial Sinuses / pathology
Female
Hemangioendothelioma / complications*
Hemangioendothelioma / pathology
Humans
Papilledema / etiology
Pseudotumor Cerebri / complications
Pseudotumor Cerebri / etiology*