Treatment selection for cerebral arteriovenous malformations: radiosurgery or microsurgery.
J Clin Neurosci
; 5 Suppl: 65-7, 1998 Mar.
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The clinical results and patient characteristics of 318 cases of cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) were analyzed: 138 patients were treated by surgery including 98 cases of total removal and 17 cases of subtotal removal; 37 patients were treated conservatively; 139 patients were treated by gamma-knife and 6 patients were treated by linac-knife radiosurgery using stereotactic multi-converging arcs systems. Clinical data analysis was performed using the same protocol in both of the surgery and the radiosurgery groups. Operative mortality for total removal was one out of 98 cases (1%). There was one death by hemorrhage, one case of symptomatic rebleeding and two cases of asymptomatic bleeding in patients treated by radiosurgery. Thus, mortality was 1 out of 145 (0.7%). Patients with total resection of AVMs had the best clinical results in comparison with subtotal resection or with conservative treatment. Morbidity was the lowest in the patients treated by radiosurgery. However, the total obliteration rate was lower than the surgical cure rate. The decision for treatment should be based on an estimation of mortality, morbidity and cure rate for each treatment.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
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Revista:
J Clin Neurosci
Asunto de la revista:
NEUROLOGIA
Año:
1998
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Article
País de afiliación:
Japón
Pais de publicación:
Reino Unido