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Vascular Malformations of the Brain

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This subject has been split between two tutorials for the same reasons that Tutorial 8 was divided into 2 parts. In this first part, the emphasis is on the nature of cerebral vascular malformations, their classification and separation into different entities. This at first appears entirely appropriate and certainly helps to organise our thinking about clinical managements. But I hope readers will be left with a sense of the uncertainty about the aetiology of these lesions and remembers that despite their different names they are closely related. Until the aetiology and natural history of brain vascular malformations is completely understood, we should keep an open mind about how they should be classified.

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