J Korean Neurosurg Soc.  1988 Aug;17(4):831-840.

3 Cases of Posterior Fossa Arteriovenous Malformation

Affiliations
  • 1Department of Neurosurgery, College of Medicine, Soonchunhyang University, Seoul, Korea.
  • 2Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, Soonchunhyang University, Seoul, Korea.

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.

Keyword

Posterior fossa AVM; Surgical removal; Intersecting beam radiation

MeSH Terms

Adolescent
Adult
Arteriovenous Malformations*
Cerebellopontine Angle
Diagnosis
Female
Humans
Natural History
Pons
Prognosis
Young Adult
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