The first person to describe cavernous hemangioma was Hubert Luschka. 1 In the year 1854, he published the case of cavernous vascular brain tumor (“kavernöseBlutgeschwulst des Gehirns” – German) and provided a detailed description of its gross macroscopic aspect. The first histopathological description was given by the renowned pathologist Rudolf Virchow in the year 1863.2 In histologic terms, cavernous angiomas (CA) are blood-filled cavities covered by a single layerof endothelium. The intervening tissue includes microglia but no neural elements.3 At present, the terms cavernoma, cavernous hemangioma/angiomaand/or cavernous malformation are being used interchangeably. We must also note that the terminologies cavernoma, cavernous angioma, and cavernous hemangioma are misnomers since they tend to point towards a neoplasticorigin.However, these represent true vascular malformations