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Traumatic Arteriovenous Fistula of the Middle Meningeal Artery During Infancy

Case Report and Review of the Literature

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  1. Department of Radiology, University Hospital Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Rasmus Holmboe Dahl & Goetz Benndorf

  2. Department of Pediatric, University Hospital Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Alfred Peter Born & Malene Landbo Børresen

  3. Department of Neurology, University Hospital Aalborg, Aalborg, Denmark

    Rasmus Holmboe Dahl

  4. Department of Radiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

    Goetz Benndorf

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Conception and design: Dahl, Benndorf. Acquisition of data: R.H. Dahl, G. Benndorf. Analysis and interpretation of data: R.H. Dahl, G. Benndorf. Drafting the article: R.H. Dahl, G. Benndorf. Critically revising the article: all authors. Reviewed submitted version of manuscript: all authors. Approved the final version of the manuscript on behalf of all authors: G. Benndorf. Study supervision: G. Benndorf.

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R.H. Dahl, A.P. Born, M.L. Børresen and G. Benndorf declare that they have no competing interests.

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For this article no studies with human participants or animals were performed by any of the authors. All studies performed were in accordance with the ethical standards indicated in each case. The patient’s parents consented to publication of the images and clinical information. Written informed consent was obtained.

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This work was presented as a poster and published as an abstract at the 16th Annual Meeting of the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery held in Miami, Florida, 22–25 July 2019.

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Dahl, R.H., Born, A.P., Børresen, M.L. et al. Traumatic Arteriovenous Fistula of the Middle Meningeal Artery During Infancy. Clin Neuroradiol 30, 403–408 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00062-019-00831-y

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