title: Intracranial hypertension resulting from a cerebrovascular malformation.
abstract: A vascular malformation caused prominent intracranial hypertension by impairing CSF resorptive capacity rather than by its mass effect or ventricular obstruction. It was successfully treated by diversionary shunt.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002557:Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunts; D006801:Humans; D002538:Intracranial Arteriovenous Malformations / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male; D010211:Papilledema / Q000209:etiology*; D011559:Pseudotumor Cerebri / Q000150:complications / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery