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Section III Open Surgical, Minimally Invasive and Microsurgical Approaches

30 Radiosurgical Management of Arteriovenous Malformations

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Editors: Bendok, Bernard R.; Batjer, H. Hunt

Authors: Abi-Aad, Karl; Abuelem, Tarek; Açiş, Onur; Agnoletto, Guilherme J.; El Ahmadieh, Tarek; Albuquerque, Felipe C.; Amenta, Peter S.; Amoss, James; Aoun, Salah G.; Arthur, Adam S.; Awad, Issam A.; Ban, Vin Shen; Barrow, Daniel L.; Bebawy, John F.; Biller, José; Binning, Mandy J.; Blech, Benzion; Bonney, Phillip A.; Brasiliense, Leonardo B.C.; Carlin, Rachel E.; Carrión-Penagos, Julián; Chong, Brian W.; Christel, Lynda M.; Church, Ephraim W.; Connolly, E. Sander; Connor, Michelle; Dalfino, John C.; Demaerschalk, Bart M.; Dumitrascu, Oana M.; Entezami, Pouya; Felbaum, Daniel; Freeman, W. David; Garcia, Jose Omar; Goyal, Nitin; Granja, Manuel F.; Hanel, Ricardo A.; Heiferman, Daniel M.; Hemphill, J. Claude; Hess, Ryan; Howard, Brian M.; Hudson, Miles; Ingall, Timothy J.; Inoa, Violiza; Jabbour, Pascal M.; Jacob, Sneha; Johnson, Mark D.; Kalen, Brian; Kicielinski, Kimberly P.; Koester, Stefan W.; Koht, Antoun; Kondziolka, Douglas; Krishna, Chandan; Kronenburg, Annick; Kumar, Gyanendra; Langer, David; Levy, Elad I.; Mack, William J.; Merrill, Sarah; Meyer, Fredric B.; Monteiro, André; Montaño, Arturo; El Naamani, Kareem; Nossek, Erez; O’Carroll, Cumara B.; Ogilvy, Christopher S.; Ogunsola, Oludotun; Ottenhoff, Lauren; Oushy, Soliman; Patel, Bhavesh; Patra, Devi P.; Peacock, Sarah; Pena, Austin; Pines, Andrew; Polster, Sean P.; Rahme, Rudy J.; Rebeiz, Tania; Riina, Howard; Rinaldo, Lorenzo; Sattur, Mithun G.; Sen, Ayan; Siegel, Jason; Sim, Justin L.; Simon, Scott D.; Solomon, Robert A.; Spetzler, Robert; Sweid, Ahmad; Syal, Arjun; Tomlinson, Amanda; Turcotte, Evelyn L.; Turkmani, Ali H.; Vakharia, Kunal; Vanderhye, Vanesa K.; Veznedaroglu, Erol; Walia, Parampreet Singh; Waqas, Muhammad; Welch, Babu G.; Welz, Matthew E.; White, Jonathan A.; Winter, JoDee; Zaatar, Muriel T.; Zeeni, Carine

Title: Hemorrhagic and Ischemic Stroke

Subtitle: Medical, Imaging, Surgical, and Interventional Approaches

Print ISBN: 9781684200436; Online ISBN: 9781684203819; Book DOI: 10.1055/b000000291

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Subjects: Neurosurgery

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Douglas Kondziolka and Howard Riina

Abstract

This chapter reviews the current indications, techniques, and clinical outcomes in the use of stereotactic radiosurgery for the management of patients with arteriovenous malformations (AVMs). There is an extensive literature available. Although radiosurgery was initially used for smaller-volume AVMs in high-risk functional locations, its utility in all brain locations and in selected patients with larger AVMs has become more important in recent years. Together with resection and endovascular approaches, radiosurgery remains an important part of multimodal care for patients with this challenging vascular disorder.

Key words

arteriovenous malformation - radiosurgery - gamma knife - outcomes - endovascular - fistula
 
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