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Endovascular Treatment of Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformations

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Brain arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) are rare and heterogeneous vascular abnormalities. AVMs are formed of a tangled anastomosis of arteries and veins without intervening capillaries located within the brain parenchyma (90 % supratentorial) with pathologic shunting of blood from the arterial to the venous side. Prevalence is approximately 18 per 100,000 adults with an incidence of approximately 1.3 per 100,000 adults per year. Most cases are sporadic – cause unknown and probably multifactorial with genetic and environmental factors.

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  1. Department of Neuroradiology, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, UK

    Shelley Renowden BSc, MRCP, FRCR

  2. Department of Neuroradiology, National Hospital for Neuroradiology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, UK

    Fergus Robertson MA, MBBS, MRCP, FRCR

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  1. Department of Radiology, University Health Network, Mount Sinai Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Kieran Murphy

  2. Department of Neuroradiology, The National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery, London, United Kingdom

    Fergus Robertson

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Renowden, S., Robertson, F. (2014). Endovascular Treatment of Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformations. In: Murphy, K., Robertson, F. (eds) Interventional Neuroradiology. Techniques in Interventional Radiology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4582-0_10

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