[A 73 year-old patient with thrombocytopenia and a giant cerebral vascular malformation]. / Paciente de 73 años con trombopenia y malformación vascular cerebral gigante.

We report the case of a patient who was seen by purpura and thrombocytopenia. The differential diagnosis in this patient included the presence of cerebral giant vascular malformation, the intake antiepileptic drugs and the presence of a chronic liver disease caused by viral hepatitis C infection. However the final diagnoses of Idiopathic Thrombocytopenia Purpura was made because of the presence of antiplatelets antibodies, the fluctuate evolution, and the increase of platelet count after costicosteroid therapy.