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Neurosurgery:
November 2006 - Volume 59 - Issue 5 - pp S3-202-S3-209
doi: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000237409.28906.96
Endovascular Neurosurgery: Spinal AVMS

Endovascular Treatment of Spinal Cord Arteriovenous Malformations

Veznedaroglu, Erol M.D.; Nelson, Peter K. M.D.; Jabbour, Pascal M. M.D.; Rosenwasser, Robert H. M.D.

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Abstract

SPINAL CORD ARTERIOVENOUS malformations are rare lesions that represent one-tenth of the brain arteriovenous malformations. Depending on their location and relationship to the dura, these lesions are divided into four categories. Their clinical manifestations may vary from mild symptoms to severe motor deficits. Spinal angiography remains the gold standard for diagnosing spinal cord vascular lesions. Although the type of shunting remains difficult to determine by the magnetic resonance imaging, it is well analyzed by spinal angiography. The cure of the shunting is not by itself a therapeutic goal, but the objective is the creation of a new hemodynamic equilibrium between the lesion and the spinal cord to decrease the risk of hemorrhage and prevent the progression of the spinal cord ischemia. The endovascular tools seem to be a reasonable therapeutic option for the treatment of the majority of the spinal cord arteriovenous malformations.

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