Central retinal vein occlusion after treatment of cavernous dural arteriovenous malformation.

A 21-year-old man was admitted to our hospital in December 1986, with exophthalmos, conjunctival injection, mild abducens palsy, mild retrobulbar pain , and bruit on the right. Digital subtraction angiography (DSA) revealed a dural AVM of the right cavernous sinus portion fed by meningeal branches of the right internal carotid artery (Fig. 1 A) and external carotid artery. The superior ophthalmic vein, which was markedly hypertrophic, was filled early in the arterial phase and drained into the facial vein. An embolization of the internal maxillary branch of the right external carotid artery was carried out with lvalon