Spinal glomus-type arteriovenous malformations: Microsurgical treatment in 20 cases - Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 423-429

  Boström, Azize ^a   Krings, Timo ^b   Hans, Franz J ^b   Schramm, Johannes ^a   Thron, Armin K ^b   Gilsbach, Joachim M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arteriovenous malformation; Microsurgery; Vascular malformation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISSECTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; MICROVASCULAR SURGERY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PAIN; PARESTHESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SPINAL ANGIOGRAPHY; SPINAL CORD ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINAL CORD SURGERY; SPINAL CORD VASCULAR DISEASE; SPINAL HEMATOMA; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SURGICAL APPROACH; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PARESTHESIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD DISEASES; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 66449096249     PISSN: 15475654     EISSN: 15475646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2009.1.SPINE08355     Document Type: Article

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