3 Cases of Posterior Fossa Arteriovenous Malformation.
- Author:
Dong Seok HAN
1
;
Won Han SHIN
;
Soon Kwan CHOI
;
Bark Jang BYUN
;
In Soo LEE
;
Dong Hwa LEE
Author Information
1. Department of Neurosurgery, College of Medicine, Soonchunhyang University, Seoul, Korea.
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Posterior fossa AVM;
Surgical removal;
Intersecting beam radiation
- MeSH:
Adolescent;
Adult;
Arteriovenous Malformations*;
Cerebellopontine Angle;
Diagnosis;
Female;
Humans;
Natural History;
Pons;
Prognosis;
Young Adult
- From:Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
1988;17(4):831-840
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
The posterior fossa arterivenous malformation(AVM) is uncommon and different from other intracranial AVM in its natural history, diagnosis, treatment, prognosis, and other features. The authors present 3 cases of posterior fossa AVM. A 26-year-old woman with supravermian AVM and a 17-year-old woman with right cerebellopontine angle AVM were treated with surgical removal in good result. And another was occurred in the pons of 20-year-old woman, that was treated with intersecting beam radiation of 5040 rads in cumulative dosage.
