Staged volume radiosurgery followed by microsurgical resection: A novel treatment for giant cerebral arteriovenous malformations: Technical case report

Neurosurgery

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1223-1227

  Firlik, Andrew D ^a   Levy, Elad I ^a   Kondziolka, Douglas ^a   Yonas, Howard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Arteriovenous malformations; Microsurgery; Stereotactic radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BRAIN ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; CRANIOTOMY; HUMAN; MALE; MICROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOSURGERY; STAGING; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOSURGERY; REOPERATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0031755802     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199811000-00124     Document Type: Article

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