Posterior fossa arterio-venous malformations: Current multimodal treatment strategies and results

Neurosurgical Review

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 619-628

  Stein, Klaus Peter ^a   Wanke, Isabel ^a,b   Schlamann, Marc ^a   Dammann, Philipp ^a   Moldovan, Alexia Sabine ^a   Zhu, Yuan ^a   Sure, Ulrich ^a   Sandalcioglu, I Erol ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b KLINIK HIRSLANDEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cerebellar haemorrhage; Cerebral arterio venous malformation; Endovascular embolization; Posterior fossa

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BRAIN ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; BRAIN HEMATOMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CHILD; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MICROSURGERY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PONS ANGLE; POSTERIOR FOSSA ARTERIO VENOUS MALFORMATION; POSTERIOR INFERIOR CEREBELLAR ARTERY INFARCTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PROGRESSIVE CEREBELLAR SWELLING; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; FOLLOW UP; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSURGERY; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; POSTERIOR FOSSA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PATIENT CARE TEAM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84907164922     PISSN: 03445607     EISSN: 14372320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10143-014-0551-9     Document Type: Article

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