Arteriovenous Malformations of the Brain in Children: A Forty Year Experience
@article{Kondziolka1992ArteriovenousMO, title={Arteriovenous Malformations of the Brain in Children: A Forty Year Experience}, author={Douglas Kondziolka and Robin P. Humphreys and Harold J. Hoffman and E. Bruce Hendrick and James M. Drake}, journal={Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences / Journal Canadien des Sciences Neurologiques}, year={1992}, volume={19}, pages={40 - 45} }
ABSTRACT: Despite the great capacity for the pediatric brain to recover from stroke, the morbidity and mortality in children who harbor an arteriovenous malformation (AVM) remains high. This study examines the clinical data and management experience with 132 patients with brain AVM from 1949 to 1989. Although the high tendency for a childhood AVM to present with hemorrhage (79%) remained constant for the forty year study period, the associated morbidity and mortality of hemorrhage changed. The…
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