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Brain arteriovenous malformations.
Nature reviews. Disease primers - 28 May 2015
Lawton Michael T, Rutledge W Caleb, Kim Helen, Stapf Christian, Whitehead Kevin J, Li Dean Y, Krings Timo, terBrugge Karel, Kondziolka Douglas, Morgan Michael K, Moon Karam, Spetzler Robert F
Abstract excerpt
An arteriovenous malformation is a tangle of dysplastic vessels (nidus) fed by arteries and drained by veins without intervening capillaries, forming a high-flow, low-resistance shunt between the arterial and venous systems. Arteriovenous malformations in the brain have a low estimated prevalence but are an important cause of intracerebral haemorrhage in young adults. For previously unruptured malformations,...
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