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Dural Arteriovenous Fistulas

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Isolated cases of dural arteriovenous fistula (DAVF) have been reported by some authors (Verbiest 1951; Obrador and Urquiza 1952). Progressive identification and precise description of this pathology came at the end of the 1960s, especially after selective and super-selective angiographic studies (Hayes 1963; Laine et al. 1963; Newton et al. 1968; Newton and Hoyt 1970; Djindjian et al. 1968, 1973).

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Bradac, G.B. (2014). Dural Arteriovenous Fistulas. In: Cerebral Angiography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54404-0_13

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