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Surgical treatment of cerebral arteriovenous malformations. Follow-up study of 43 cases

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In 43 patients with arterio-venous malformations and one patient with a cavernous haemangioma, whose angiomas were completely removed by the same Surgeon, pre- and postoperative angiograms were reviewed and the clinical results documented in a follow-up study. Mortality rate (7%) and severe disability (7%) are significantly lower than in untreated patients.

A poor outcome strongly depends on the number of feeding arteries, on localization (midline) and size.

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  1. D. Adelt

    Present address: Department Neurosurgery, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Federal Republic of Germany

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  1. Department Neurosurgery, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Federal Republic of Germany

    J. Wolters

  2. Neurology (Neuroradiology), University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Federal Republic of Germany

    H. Zeumer

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Dedicated to Prof. Dr. W. Krenkel on his sixtieth birthday.

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Adelt, D., Zeumer, H. & Wolters, J. Surgical treatment of cerebral arteriovenous malformations. Follow-up study of 43 cases. Acta neurochir 76, 45–49 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01403828

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