title: Spinal dural arteriovenous malformation presented with intracranial hypertension in a young patient.
abstract: Spinal dural arteriovenous malformations (AVM), the most common type of spinal cord vascular malformation, can be a challenge to diagnosis and prompt treatment. The disorder is rare, and the presenting clinical symptoms and signs are non-specific and insidious at onset. Spinal dural AVMs preferentially affect middle-aged men, and patients most commonly present with gait abnormality or lower-extremity weakness and sensory disturbances. İt may rarely present with symptoms of intracranial hypertension including headache and visual disorders. In this report, we present the radiological findings of a 19-year-old male patient with spinal dural AVM presenting with raised intracranial pressure symptoms including papilloedema and headache, and discuss with recent literature.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Sütçü İmam University, Kahramanmaraş, Turkey. drfatihinci@gmail.com
authors.forename: Mehmet Fatih
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Inci
authors.forename: Mehmet
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Senoğlu
authors.forename: Fuat
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ozkan
authors.forename: Murvet
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yuksel
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001165:Arteriovenous Malformations / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D004388:Dura Mater / Q000098:blood supply*; D006261:Headache / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D019586:Intracranial Hypertension / Q000209:etiology*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D013116:Spinal Cord; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014786:Vision Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D055815:Young Adult