The prospective natural history of cerebral venous malformations

Neurosurgery

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 195-201

  McLaughlin, Mark R ^a,b   Kondziolka, Douglas ^a   Flickinger, John C ^a   Lunsford, Stephanie ^a   Lunsford, L Dade ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Developmental venous anomaly; Hemorrhage; Natural history; Venous angioma; Venous malformations

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOMA; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BRAIN MALFORMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CEREBRAL VEINS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMANGIOMA, CAVERNOUS; HUMANS; INFANT; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK;

EID: 0031901896     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199808000-00001     Document Type: Article

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