SUMMARY: We present 5 cases of demyelination in patients diagnosed with multiple sclerosis that are closely associated with a developmental venous anomaly. Although the presence of a central vein is a known phenomenon with multiple sclerosis plaques, demyelination occurring around developmental venous anomalies is an underreported phenomenon. Tumefactive demyelination can cause a diagnostic dilemma because of its overlapping imaging findings with central nervous system neoplasm. The relationship of a tumefactive plaque with a central vein can be diagnostically useful, and we suggest that if such a lesion is closely associated with a developmental venous anomaly, an inflammatory or demyelinating etiology should be a leading consideration.
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Rogers, D. M., Peckham, M. E., Shah, L. M., & Wiggins, R. H. (2018). Association of developmental venous anomalies with demyelinating lesions in patients with multiple sclerosis. American Journal of Neuroradiology, 39(1), 97–101. https://doi.org/10.3174/ajnr.A5374
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