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Creating Radio-cephalic Arteriovenous Fistula in the Forearm with a Modified No-Touch Technique
Published on: April 1, 2022
Atypical spinal dural arteriovenous fistula with supply from the lateral sacral artery
1Department of Neurosurgery, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-4-3 Asahi-machi, Abeno-ku, Osaka 545-8585, Japan. m3275727@med.osaka-cu.ac.jp
Abstract:
We report a dural arteriovenous fistula (AVF) that developed at a site on the midline dorsal surface of the dura mater that had been damaged by repeated lumbar punctures. A 61-year-old male patient had undergone repeated lumbar punctures and discectomy for severe lumbago 40 years before the present admission. After surgery, the lumbago symptoms resolved. However, 30 years after the operation, he started to experience dysaesthesia, motor weakness in both legs, and urinary disturbance. Physical examination revealed bilateral leg weakness, diminished deep tendon reflexes in the patellar and Achilles tendons bilaterally, and decreased superficial sensation below L1. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed swelling with intramedullary high intensity and multiple flow voids around the conus and spinal cord on T(2)-weighted images, and adhesive arachnoiditis. Spinal angiography revealed an AVF between the left lateral sacral artery and the S1 radicular vein at the site of the previous operation. Surgery was conducted to carry out excision of the dural AVF at the shunting point, the arterialized intradural vein, and lysis of the arachnoiditis. This case of dural AVF may have been caused by repeated lumbar punctures.
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