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In the past few years treatment of intracranial arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) has become the subject of various clinical specialities. Endovascular therapy using embolic agents, sterotactic radiosurgery, and “conventional” microsurgery are sometimes supplementary and sometimes competitive methods in the treatment of brain AVMs. Especially in ruptured AVMs, we prefer microsurgical treatment, because with microsurgery the malformation can in the vast majority of cases be completely excised in one session [2, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16], which markedly reduces the risk of recurrent hemorrhage. The results of microsurgical excision have steadily improved [7], as we can demonstrate in our follow-up study of 57 patients with a brain AVM.
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Lumenta, C., Bettag, M., Bertels, A., Bock, W.J. (1991). Indications, Technique, and Results of Microsurgical Treatment of Intracranial Arteriovenous Malformations. In: Bock, W.J., Lumenta, C., Brock, M., Klinger, M. (eds) Intracranial Angiomas Neurosurgical Intensive Care Supratentorial Tumors in Children. Advances in Neurosurgery, vol 19. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76182-9_10
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