Embolization and surgical excision of giant arterio-venous malformation.
A case of a giant arteriovenous malformation involving almost the entire dominant hemisphere in a 32-year-old white male with progressive neurologic deterioration, presumbaly due to cerebral steal, is described. Special management included surgical intravascular embolization with latex spheres. and at a later date, resection of the arteriovenous malformation.
D000328:Adult; D002342:Carotid Artery, External / Q000601:surgery; D002533:Cerebral Angiography; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic; D006801:Humans; D002538:Intracranial Arteriovenous Malformations / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D011183:Postoperative Complications