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The Cooperative Study of Intracranial Aneurysms and Subarachnoid Hemorrhage (1) indicated that surgical or nonsurgical treatment depended on the age of the patient, size and location of the lesion, presence or absence of hemorrhage, and the severity of illness at the time of the treatment. Technical operability was determined essentially by the size and site of the lesion. Of the 453 Arteriovenous Malformations (AVM) in this study, 50% were not treated surgically. Of 36 nonbleeding AVM without seizures, 24 were not operated upon; of 101 nonbleeding AVM with seizures, 83 were not operated upon; of 281 bleeding AVM, 103 were not operated upon; of 31 infratentorial AVM, 2 were considered inoperable, and 14 were not operated upon. However, no light is shed on what really is an inoperable lesion, nor why this large number was not surgically treated.
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Perret, G. (1975). The Epidemiology and Clinical Course of Arteriovenous Malformations. In: Pia, H.W., Gleave, J.R.W., Grote, E., Zierski, J. (eds) Cerebral Angiomas. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-66042-9_3
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