J Korean Neurosurg Soc.
1988 Aug;17(4):831-840.
3 Cases of Posterior Fossa Arteriovenous Malformation
- Affiliations
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- 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.