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Vascular Malformations

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Angiomatous malformations are based on a failure of the fetal blood vessels to differentiate into arteries, capillaries, and veins. In most cases the capillary network is absent, so that arteries and veins communicate directly [16]. Aneurysms are based on a congenital defect in the vessel wall.

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Huk, W.J. (1990). Vascular Malformations. In: Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Central Nervous System Diseases. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72568-5_14

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