Images in clinical medicine: snake in the brain.
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Discussion Our patient has a vascular lesion of the brain which looks like an AVM though the images do not clearly demonstrate the nidus of the AVM. Th e ‘snake’ is actually the large draining vein and not the AVM nidus. Giant AVMs are diffi cult to treat and oft en carry higher treatment morbidity and mortality rates than do smaller ones. Patients Dear Sir, A 45-year-old male presented to our emergency room with headache. Computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging of the brain (source images from the magnetic resonance angiogram, MRA) and a maximum intensity projection MRA showed a left occipital lobe giant arteriovenous malformation (AVM; fi gs. 1–3 ). Received: January 23, 2006 Accepted: March 15, 2006 Published online: May 29, 2006
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عنوان ژورنال:
- European neurology
دوره 55 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2006