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Gregory W. Albers, MD; Stephen M. Avalos, MD; Michael Weinrich, MD

Arch Neurol. 1987;44(7):779-780.

Abstract
• A 30-year-old man had relapsing and remitting neurologic symptoms, which had been diagnosed as multiple sclerosis for nine years. Eventually, an unusual left ventricular tumor was discovered. The pathologic diagnosis was cavernous angiectasia, which, to our knowledge, is a previously undescribed histologic entity. Embolization from cardiac tumors can mimic multiple sclerosis and multiple echocardiograms may be required for diagnosis.

Author Affiliations
From the Departments of Neurology (Dr Albers) and Pathology (Dr Avalos), Stanford (Calif) University Medical Center, and the Veterans Administration Medical Center, Palo Alto, Calif (Dr Weinrich).

Footnotes
Accepted for publication April 6, 1987.

Reprint requests to Department of Neurology, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA 94305 (Dr Albers).

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