PMID: 9550773Apr 29, 1998Paper

Multidisciplinary treatment of cerebral arteriovenous malformations: preliminary results in 115 consecutive patients

Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde
W J van RooijB Karlsson

Abstract

Preliminary evaluation of the combined treatment (surgery, embolization and stereotactic gamma radiosurgery) of 115 consecutive patients with a cerebral arteriovenous malformation (AVM). Retrospective. St. Elisabeth Hospital, Tilburg, the Netherlands. In a 35-month period 115 consecutive patients presented with an AVM. The mean age was 41.8 years (range: 6-72). The main clinical presentation was haemorrhage in 65 patients (56.5%), seizures in 31 patients (27.0%), neurological deficit in 7 patients (6.1%) and hydrocephalus in 2 patients (1.7%); in 10 patients (8.7%) the AVM was an incidental finding. Treatment consisted of surgery, radiosurgery with the gamma knife and embolization. Embolization was mostly used to reduce the size of an AVM before surgery or radiosurgery. Out of 115 patients 5 were referred for a treatment advice only and treatment was performed elsewhere. Of the remaining 110 patients 84 (76.4%) were treated and 26 (23.6%) were not treated for various reasons. Of the 84 treated patients 17 (20.2%) had surgery only, 17 (20.2%) had radiosurgery only, and 12 (14.3%) were treated with embolization only. Surgery after embolization was performed in 8 patients (9.5%) and radiosurgery after embolization in 26 patients (...Continue Reading

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