Spontaneous disappearance of a cerebral arteriovenous malformation: case report.
We report a 14-year-old girl who had been diagnosed incidentally as having a cerebral arteriovenous malformation (AVM) in the left thalamus. The AVM disappeared spontaneously without treatment. Follow-up angiography performed 6 years after the original angiograms confirmed the complete disappearance of the AVM. Some possible mechanisms giving rise to the thrombosis of an AVM are discussed.
Hamada
J
J
Department of Neurosurgery, National Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan.
Yonekawa
Y
Y
D000293:Adolescent; D002533:Cerebral Angiography; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D002538:Intracranial Arteriovenous Malformations / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D012075:Remission, Spontaneous; D013788:Thalamus / Q000098:blood supply; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed