Intracranial dural arteriovenous fistulas: Classification, imaging findings, and treatment

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1007-1013

  Gandhi, Dheeraj ^a   Chen, J ^a   Pearl, M ^a   Huang, J ^a   Gemmete, J J ^b   Kathuria, S ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BRAIN ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVENTIONAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; DEMENTIA; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EXOPHTHALMOS; FOLLOW UP; HISTORY; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL DURAL ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; TRANSARTERIAL EMBOLIZATION; VISUAL ACUITY;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM VASCULAR MALFORMATIONS; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84862585815     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: 1936959X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A2798     Document Type: Review

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