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Is moyamoya disease a kind of brain cancer?
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No: Moyamoya is a disease of the blood vessels in the brain.
Answered 3/3/2018
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Nope : Collateral blood vessels that form in the brain around blockages look like a puff of smoke on angiogram. That's what the term moya moya refers to. It is vascular disease of the brain.
Answered 3/3/2018
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