Arteriovenous malformations in the vein of Galen.
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Arteriovenous malformations involving the vein of Galen.
The vein of Galen is the largest of the deep cerebral veins formed posterior to the pineal body by confluence of the two internal cerebral veins. It curves sharply upward around the splenium of the corpus collosum and drains the deep medially located veins of the diencephalon, basal ganglia, and mid brain. Dilatation of the vein of Galen results from the force of arterial blood either directly ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood
سال: 1990
ISSN: 0003-9888,1468-2044
DOI: 10.1136/adc.65.5.559-d