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Arteriovenous Malformations of the Central Nervous System

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Abstract

Arteriovenous malformations are abnormal lesions, a tangle (or nidus) of blood vessels connecting directly, which means without capillaries, veins, and arteries in the brain. The redirection of the arterial blood away from brain parenchyma and through the nidus is referred to as a shunt. High blood flow and shunting of high-pressure arterial blood cause the feeder arteries and veins to dilate the nidus and make it vulnerable to bleeding due to ruptures that might happen when these lesions remain untreated.

Invasive surgical procedures and radiologic interventions seem to be the method of choice. Image-guided stereotactic radiosurgery in its multiple technologic appearances as the Linac, Gamma Knife, or CyberKnife radiosurgery could affect in combined regimens the lesion and avoid bleeding, when performed in combination with radiologic interventions and surgery.

Consecutively, it demonstrates a noninvasive high-precision and safe technique in treating patients (f/m) with traceable improvement of quality of life. Image-guided stereotactic radiosurgery is cost-efficient.

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Badakhshi, H. (2016). Arteriovenous Malformations of the Central Nervous System. In: Image-Guided Stereotactic Radiosurgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39189-2_8

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