Arteriovenous malformation and dementia: A case report
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چکیده
Arteriovenous malformation (AVM) is a congenital lesion commonly associated with intracranial hemorrhage. We describe a woman with an AVM (Spetzler-Martin grade V) and presenile progressive dementia. The association between AVM and cognition is discussed.
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دوره 10 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2016