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Intracranial arteriovenous malformation

Classification

There is a tendency to dichotomize the arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) into ruptured or unruptured ones, as unruptured AVMs appear to have a more indolent clinical course 1) 2).

see Giant intracranial arteriovenous malformation.

see Cerebral arteriovenous malformation.

see Pediatric intracranial arteriovenous malformation.

see Posterior fossa arteriovenous malformation.

see Ruptured Intracranial Arteriovenous Malformation.

see Unruptured Intracranial Arteriovenous Malformation.

Risk Factors

Patients diagnosed with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) are at risk of developing intracranial arteriovenous malformations (AVM).

Pathogenesis

see Arteriovenous malformation pathogenesis.

Diagnosis

see Magnetic resonance angiography for intracranial arteriovenous malformation.

Treatment

see Intracranial arteriovenous malformation treatment.

Case series

Intracranial arteriovenous malformation case series.

1)
Al-Shahi R, Bhattacharya JJ, Currie DG, Papanastassiou V, Ritchie V, Roberts RC, et al.: Prospective, population-based detection of intracranial vascular malformations in adults: the Scottish Intracranial Vascular Malformation Study (SIVMS). Stroke 34:1163–1169, 2003
2)
Fiehler J, Stapf C: ARUBA—beating natural history in unruptured brain AVMs by intervention. Neuroradiology 50:465–467, 2008