Resolution of hemifacial spasm after surgical obliteration of a tentorial arteriovenous fistula: Case report

Neurosurgery

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Deshmukh, Vivek R ^a   Maughan, Peter H ^a   Spetzler, Robert F ^a  

^a BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Hemifacial spasm; Surgical obliteration; Tentorial arteriovenous fistula

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM TENTORIUM; CONVENTIONAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; FACIAL NERVE; HEMIFACIAL SPASM; HUMAN; MALE; MICROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIC; VEIN LIGATION; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; CAROTID ARTERY; CEREBELLUM; DURA MATER; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LIGATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REMISSION; VASCULARIZATION;

ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; CAROTID ARTERIES; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; DURA MATER; HEMIFACIAL SPASM; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LIGATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REMISSION INDUCTION;

EID: 33646837691     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000192386.89105.82     Document Type: Article

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