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Comprehensive Endovascular and Open Surgical Management of Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformations
Published on: October 20, 2017
Axis fracture due to giant cranial AVM
Lydia Karamani1, Nikola Reinhard Dürr2, Bogdana Suchorska1
1Department of Neurosurgery, SANA Hospital Duisburg, Academic Teaching Hospital of the University Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany.
Abstract:
Cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) are a vascular anomaly consisting of a bundle of direct connection of arteries and veins. AVMs clinical expression ranges from complete asymptomatic, and thus incidentally found, to life threatening with rupturing and bleeding. In this wide spectrum, osteolysis is considered as a rare complication of interosseous AVMs, and only few cases of mandible and maxilla osteolysis have been reported. We present, herein, a case of an intracranial AVM, which has caused in the course of the time an osteolysis of the dens and axis.
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