title: Management of cerebrovascular malformations.
abstract: More and more cerebrovascular malformations are being recognized during life as a result of improved imaging techniques. The nature of the different varieties of malformation and their clinical significance are discussed and a brief account given of the relative merits of surgical excision, thrombo-obliteration by stereotactic radiosurgery, and occlusion by endovascular embolization as compared with conservative management.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosugery, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield.
authors.forename: P S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Dias
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Forster
mesh_terms: D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D002538:Intracranial Arteriovenous Malformations / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D013238:Stereotaxic Techniques