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SUBMITTER: Nahrir S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3841714 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nahrir Shahpar S Al-Hameed Majed H MH Al-Sinaidi Omar A OA Al Shakweer Wafa W
BMJ case reports 20131121
Familial cerebral cavernous malformation is a rare entity. It has been described commonly among the Hispanic population and sparsely among the Italian, French, Swedish and Chinese populations. We discovered two families with this condition among the Saudi population for the first time. Both the index patients had a seizure as a prominent manifestation of their underlying structural lesion. One of them had recurrent attacks of bleeding in the cavernoma leading to a focal neurological deficit. The ...[more]