Angiographically occult arteriovenous malformations in the brain are rare but cause considerable diagnostic difficulty. Four personal cases are presented in which CT scans showed hypodense lesions with minimal or no enhancement, and angiograms showed only an avascular mass. Gliomas, a dermoid and an infarct were suspected before histological examination of biopsies or excised specimens. The pat...

INTRODUCTION Arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) are vascular abnormalities consisting of fistulous connections of arteries and veins without a normal intervening capillary bed. In the cerebral hemispheres, they frequently occur as cone-shaped lesions with the apex of the cone reaching toward the ventricles. Nearly all AVMs are thought to be congenital. Supratentorial location is the most common...

OBJECTIVE To present the clinical features, management, and outcomes in a series of patients with orbital arteriovenous malformations (AVMs). METHODS Clinical records of patients with orbital AVMs confirmed using angiography were reviewed as a retrospective, noncomparative, interventional case series. RESULTS Eight patients (3 women and 5 men) with unilateral AVMs and a mean age of 39 years...

PURPOSE To report the comprehensive superselective angiographic characteristics of aneurysms associated with cerebral arteriovenous malformations. METHOD One hundred consecutive patients referred for cerebral arteriovenous malformation embolization underwent preembolization superselective angiography. Superselective angiograms were obtained after microcatheterization of arteriovenous malforma...

BACKGROUND Isolated congenital asplenia is a poorly understood and rare form of primary immunodeficiency, often associated with life-threatening infections. CASE REPORT We encountered a unique case of a 22-year-old asplenic male who presented with severe iron-deficiency anemia secondary to occult gastrointestinal bleeding since age 15. Our extensive work-up confirmed jejunal arteriovenous malfo...

Background Recent radiological studies have shown that arteriovenous malformations with impaired venous drainage may be susceptible to hemorrhage. To evaluate this hypothesis using a hemodynamic approach, we measured intravascular pressure during surgery in three patients with arteriovenous malformation. Summary of Report In three patients we measured intravascular pressures in the draining ven...

SUMMARY Valavanis A, Pangalu A, Tanaka M. Endovascular treatment of cerebral arteriovenous malformations with emphasis on the curative role of embolisation. Schweiz Arch Neurol Psychiatr 2004;155:341-7. Cerebral arteriovenous malformations are complex and only partially understood vascular lesions of the central nervous system with a natural history characterised by significant morbidity and mo...

Vascular malformations are described in 25 members of one affected family. Most of these lesions were cavernous hemangiomas, but arteriovenous malformations and capillary hemangiomas were also microscopically observed in some specimens. The five generation pedigree suggests the vascular malformations are genetically determined on the basis of a dominant inherited trait.