Cranio-cervical Junction Dural AV Shunts

Transoral Surgery for Cranio-cervical Junction Compression

Angiographic characteristics and treatment of cervical spinal dural arteriovenous shunts.

Spinal DAVSs of the cervical level are rare lesions. The purpose of this study is to describe the clinical and angiographic characteristics of cervical spinal DAVSs. From a prospectively collected database including 449 cases of brain and spinal DAVSs, lesions located at the cervical level were selected. The clinical presentation, angiographic characteristics, and treatment outcome were assesse...

A pictorial essay: Congenital malformations of the cranio- cervical junction

Natural history of dural arteriovenous shunts.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Dural arteriovenous shunts with cortical venous reflux or drainage may cause neurological symptoms and death with or without intracranial hemorrhage. Present knowledge about the natural history of these lesions is limited, however. We investigated the incidences of intracranial hemorrhage, progressive dementia syndrome, and death in patients diagnosed in our neurovascular...

Quantification of Pediatric Cervical Spine Growth at the Cranio-Vertebral Junction

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to investigate morphological change at the craniovertebral junction (CVJ) region using computed tomography. METHODS A total of 238 patients were included in this study, and mean age was 47.8±21.3 months. Spinal canal diameter, Power's ratio, McRae line, antero-posterior C1 ring height, atlantoaxial joint space, C2 growth, epidural space from the dens (M...