Intracerebral arteriovenous fistulas associated with intraparenchymal varix in childhood: case reports

Neurosurgery. 1990 Jan;26(1):122-5. doi: 10.1097/00006123-199001000-00017.

Abstract

This report describes three children, each of whom developed an unusual malformation consisting of one or more intracerebral arteriovenous fistulas and a large intraparenchymal venous varix. Their clinical symptoms were similar to those produced by aneurysms of the vein of Galen: increasing head circumference, seizures, hemorrhage, and developmental delay. We treated each child with endovascular embolization and/or surgery and obtained complete closure of all fistulas without mortality.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Arteriovenous Fistula / complications*
  • Arteriovenous Fistula / diagnostic imaging
  • Brain / blood supply*
  • Brain / diagnostic imaging
  • Child
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Radiography
  • Varicose Veins / complications*
  • Varicose Veins / diagnostic imaging