Multidisciplinary care of occipital arteriovenous malformations: Effect on nonhemorrhagic headache, vision, and outcome in a series of 135 patients: Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 742-748

  Dehdashti, Amir R ^a,c   Thines, Laurent ^a   Willinsky, Robert A ^b   Terbrugge, Karel G ^b   Schwartz, Michael L ^a   Tymianski, Michael ^a   Wallace, M Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c Geisinger Neurosciences Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Arteriovenous malformation; Endovascular embolization; Observation; Occipital location; Radiosurgery; Surgery; Treatment; Visual field

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BLEEDING; BRAIN ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DEATH; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GERSTMANN SYNDROME; HEADACHE; HEMIANOPIA; HOMONYMOUS HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; NONHEMORRHAGIC HEADACHE; OCCIPITAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUADRANT HEMIANOPIA; RADIOSURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISION; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPLICATION; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATHOLOGY; VERY ELDERLY; VISION DISORDERS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; COHORT STUDIES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEADACHE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; OCCIPITAL LOBE; RADIOSURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISION DISORDERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957854044     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2009.11.JNS09884     Document Type: Article

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