A Rare Case of Symptomatic Developmental Venous Anomaly

ABSTRRACT: Developmental venous anomalies (DVAs), which have been called venous anggiomas, are extreme variations of the normal transmedullary veins that are necessary for the normal venous drainage of an area of the brain. Al though DVAs should be considered benign, under rare circumstances they can be symptomatic. The most frequent causes of progressive unilateral nonpulsatile tinnitus are acoustic neuroma, skull base tumor, labyrinthitis, and vascular compression syndrome. They have been or diagnosed in patients presenting with symptoms such as seizures, vertigo, syncope and tinnitus. In most cases, DVAs are said to be accidental findings. Patients with unruptured cerebral venous angiomas, conservative treatment is the logical treatment choice. We report an exceptional case of tinnitus associated with a developmental venous angioma with the draining collector vein in frontoparietal region of the right cerebral hemisphere.

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