Combined treatment effects after embolization and radiosurgery in high-grade arteriovenous malformations: Case report and review of the literature

Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 27-34

  Duffner, Frank ^a   Freudenstein, Dirk ^a   Becker, Gerd ^a   Ernemann, Ulrike ^a   Grote, Ernst H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Complications; Endovascular embolization; Intracerebral arteriovenous malformation; Microsurgery; Multimodal therapy; Radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BRAIN ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; CASE REPORT; CEREBRAL REVASCULARIZATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOSURGERY; REVIEW;

ADULT; CEREBRAL REVASCULARIZATION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RADIOSURGERY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0034578021     PISSN: 10116125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000048380     Document Type: Article

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