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Peruvian Journal of Neurosurgery

Minimally invasive treatment of Arteriovenous Malformations

Andrés Plasencia S. MD
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ABSTRACT

 

Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformations (AVM) are the most common type of intracranial vascular malformation and are the second most common cause (after cerebral aneurysms) of intracranial hemorrhage. Anatomically, AVM is a set of embryologically immature and fragile vessels, located in brain tissue. Hemodynamically it constitutes a system of low pressure of turbulent flow that wears the involved dysplastic vessels, of there its tendency to break up and to bleed.

  Key words: Cerebral arteriovenous malformation, cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral aneurysm