Surgical treatment of non-ruptured giant occipital arteriovenous malformations with frequent migraine-like headache: Two case reports

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 441-445

  Nagata, Shinji ^a   Morioka, Takato ^a   Natori, Yoshihiro ^b   Sasaki, Tomio ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ASO IIZUKA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Giant arteriovenous malformation; Microsurgery; Migraine; Occipital lobe

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BRAIN ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; GALEN VEIN; HEADACHE; HOMONYMOUS HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MIGRAINE AURA; MORBIDITY; NEUROIMAGING; NEURONAVIGATION; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; SURGICAL PATIENT; SYMPTOM;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; OCCIPITAL LOBE;

EID: 33748992587     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.46.441     Document Type: Article

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