Aqueduct stenosis due to venous ectasia with a dural arteriovenous fistula.
We report aqueduct compression by venous ectasia in a 65-year-old man with a dural arteriovenous fistula in the posterior cranial fossa draining into a superior vermian vein. Conventional and phase-contrast MRI showed the aqueduct stenosis and the causative dilated vein.
Brugières
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Service de Neuroradiologie, Hôpital Henri Mondor, Créteil, France.
Combes
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C
el-Khoury
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C
Decq
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Heine
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Meyrignac
C
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Gaston
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A
D000368:Aged; D001164:Arteriovenous Fistula / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D002535:Cerebral Aqueduct / Q000473:pathology*; D002550:Cerebral Veins / Q000473:pathology*; D003251:Constriction, Pathologic; D004108:Dilatation, Pathologic; D004388:Dura Mater / Q000098:blood supply*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male