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Despite the recent onslaught of publications dealing with “mixed” vascular malformations (1–3), four basic types of vascular malformation are recognized (4): arteriovenous malformations (AVMs), cavernous malformations (CMs), venous malformations (VMs) and capillary telangiectases (CTs). AVMs and CMs are commonly encountered surgically, while VMs and CTs are nearly exclusively seen incidentally at autopsy. However, as VMs and CTs may rarely present surgically, and as these latter lesions are often included in descriptions of mixed vascular malformations, all four of these malformations will be discussed and illustrated in this chapter.
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Prayson, R.A., Cohen, M.L. (2000). Vascular Malformations. In: Practical Differential Diagnosis in Surgical Neuropathology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-037-7_32
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