Spontaneous regression of an extra- and intracranial arteriovenous malformation

1976 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 338-341 ◽  
Author(s):  
John H. Hansen ◽  
Ib Søgaard
Keyword(s):  
Arteriovenous Malformation ◽  
Spontaneous Regression ◽  
Surgical Intervention ◽  
Clinical Symptoms ◽  
Posterior Cranial Fossa ◽  
Intracranial Arteriovenous Malformation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Bleeding Episodes ◽  
Cranial Fossa ◽  
Fine Print

✓ The authors report a case in which an arteriovenous aneurysm located partly extracranially and partly in the posterior cranial fossa disappeared within 15 months without bleeding episodes or surgical intervention. The patient's clinical symptoms, headache, and cranial bruit, disappeared completely over the same period.

Spontaneous regression of posterior fossa dural arteriovenous malformation

1979 ◽  
Vol 51 (5) ◽  
pp. 715-717 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shunro Endo ◽  
Keiji Koshu ◽  
Jiro Suzuki
Keyword(s):  
Arteriovenous Malformation ◽  
Posterior Fossa ◽  
Spontaneous Regression ◽  
Surgical Intervention ◽  
Clinical Symptoms ◽  
Dural Arteriovenous Malformation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Homonymous Hemianopsia ◽  
Bleeding Episodes ◽  
Fine Print

✓ The authors report a case of infratentorial arteriovenous malformation that regressed spontaneously within 25 months without bleeding episodes or surgical intervention. The patient's clinical symptoms, left-sided tinnitus, cranial bruit, and right homonymous hemianopsia, disappeared completely over the same period.

Successful management of an intracranial arteriovenous malformation by conventional irradiation

1985 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Tognetti ◽  
Alvaro Andreoli ◽  
Anna Cuscini ◽  
Claudio Testa
Keyword(s):  
Radiation Therapy ◽  
Arteriovenous Malformation ◽  
Successful Management ◽  
Intracranial Arteriovenous Malformation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Conventional Radiation ◽  
Complete Obliteration ◽  
Conventional Radiation Therapy ◽  
Fine Print

✓ The reduction of an intracranial arteriovenous malformation (AVM) by conventional radiation therapy is described in a patient who refused surgery. The 2-year follow-up angiogram documented nearly complete obliteration of the nidus of the AVM, accompanied by progressive narrowing of the arteries supplying the lesion. The scanty literature dealing with this form of treatment is summarized.

Acute subdural hematoma and death following lateral cervical spinal puncture

1983 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 284-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larry A. Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Vertebral Artery ◽  
Subdural Hematoma ◽  
Posterior Cranial Fossa ◽  
Acute Subdural Hematoma ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Spinal Puncture ◽  
Cranial Fossa ◽  
Fine Print

✓ An acute subdural hematoma dissecting into the posterior cranial fossa and resulting in death is reported. The patient had undergone spinal puncture by the lateral cervical technique prior to development of the hematoma. Autopsy demonstrated that the source of hemorrhage was an anomalous intraspinal vertebral artery.

The straight sinus

1974 ◽  
Vol 41 (6) ◽  
pp. 724-727 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. C. Saxena ◽  
M. A. Q. Beg ◽  
A. C. Das
Keyword(s):  
Dura Mater ◽  
Posterior Cranial Fossa ◽  
Cerebral Vein ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Straight Sinus ◽  
Sagittal Sinus ◽  
India Ink ◽  
Human Cadavers ◽  
Cranial Fossa ◽  
Fine Print

✓ The dura mater of the posterior cranial fossa of 86 adult human cadavers has been examined grossly after the injection of India ink through the confluence of sinuses in order to visualize the extent, communications, and tributaries of the straight sinus. Variations from the textbook description of formation by the union of the inferior sagittal sinus and the great cerebral vein are described and discussed.

Posterior atlantooccipital membrane for duraplasty

2002 ◽  
Vol 97 (2) ◽  
pp. 266-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Shane Tubbs ◽  
John C. Wellons ◽  
Jeffrey P. Blount ◽  
W. Jerry Oakes
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Body ◽  
Postoperative Complications ◽  
Pediatric Patients ◽  
Chiari I Malformation ◽  
Posterior Cranial Fossa ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Chiari I ◽  
Cranial Fossa ◽  
Fine Print

✓ The authors describe the use of autogenetic posterior atlantooccipital (PAO) membrane for duraplasty following after posterior cranial fossa surgery. The PAO membrane is routinely exposed for procedures of the posterior cranial fossa and merely needs to be dissected free of the underlying dura mater. Recently this membrane was obtained in several pediatric patients following procedures of the posterior cranial fossa such as duraplasty in case of Chiari I malformation. No postoperative complications were found at 6-month follow-up examination. The advantages of this intervention include less manipulation of muscle and fascia than that involved in other procedures and, therefore, seemingly less postoperative pain and the negation of issues inherent with foreign-body graft sources. The authors believe this structure to be of use as a dural substitute in small dural openings of the posterior cranial fossa.

An angiographic study of meningiomas of the posterior fossa

1971 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 731-741 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georges M. Salamon ◽  
André Combalbert ◽  
Charles Raybaud ◽  
Jorge Gonzalez
Keyword(s):  
Vertebral Artery ◽  
Posterior Fossa ◽  
Foramen Magnum ◽  
Posterior Cranial Fossa ◽  
Occipital Artery ◽  
Angiographic Study ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Meningeal Arteries ◽  
Cranial Fossa ◽  
Fine Print

✓ The meningeal vasculature of the posterior cranial fossa was studied on injected normal anatomical specimens and in angiograms of patients with posterior fossa meningiomas. The correlated results indicate that the dura anterior to the foramen magnum is supplied by meningeal vessels from the carotid siphon, the ascending pharyngeal and middle meningeal arteries. The dura posterior to the foramen magnum is supplied primarily by the occipital artery and secondarily by the vertebral artery.

Brain scanning in the diagnosis of acoustic neuromas

1972 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheldon Baum ◽  
Alan B. Rothballer ◽  
Felix Shiffman ◽  
Rita F. Girolamo
Keyword(s):  
Tumor Recurrence ◽  
Diagnostic Procedure ◽  
Posterior Cranial Fossa ◽  
Optimum Time ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Brain Scans ◽  
Acoustic Neuromas ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Cranial Fossa ◽  
Fine Print

✓ Of 22 patients found to have acoustic neuromas at surgery, 99mTc-sodium pertechnetate brain scans correctly identified these tumors in 18. This successful imaging is due largely to two factors: the improved visualization of the posterior cranial fossa with technetium 99m and the use of delayed scans. With the latter, it was found that the optimum time for scanning acoustic neuromas was 2½ hours following radionuclide administration; scans performed before that time failed to visualize the tumor in five patients whose studies were positive on delayed scans. The authors feel that for acoustic neuromas 2 cm or more in diameter, 99mTc scanning is the diagnostic procedure of choice and is especially useful in detecting tumor recurrence.

Endolymphatic sac tumor metastatic to the spine

2005 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas C. Bambakidis ◽  
Tina Rodrigue ◽  
Cliff A. Megerian ◽  
Robert A. Ratcheson
Keyword(s):  
Present Report ◽  
Posterior Cranial Fossa ◽  
Endolymphatic Sac ◽  
Invasive Growth ◽  
Distinct Entity ◽  
Endolymphatic Sac Tumor ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Papillary Lesions ◽  
Cranial Fossa ◽  
Fine Print

✓ Endolymphatic sac tumors (ELSTs) are aggressive papillary lesions of the temporal bone. Although histologically benign, they may exhibit invasive growth and destruction of the skull base. Patients generally present with symptoms referable to the lesion's location within the middle or posterior cranial fossa. Although well characterized as a distinct entity, ELSTs involved in metastatic dissemination have never been reported. In the present report the authors describe a case of ELST metastatic to the spine treated with resection.

The use of intraarterial papaverine in the management of vasospasm complicating arteriovenous malformation resection

1995 ◽  
Vol 82 (2) ◽  
pp. 296-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael K. Morgan ◽  
Maurice J. Day ◽  
Nicholas Little ◽  
Verity Grinnell ◽  
William Sorby
Keyword(s):  
Arteriovenous Malformation ◽  
Perfusion Pressure ◽  
Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage ◽  
Venous Occlusion ◽  
Neurological Deterioration ◽  
Unusual Complication ◽  
Content Type ◽  
First Case ◽  
Normal Perfusion Pressure Breakthrough ◽  
Fine Print

✓ The authors report two cases of treatment by intraarterial papaverine of cerebral vasospasm complicating the resection of an arteriovenous malformation (AVM). Both cases had successful reversal of vasospasm documented on angiography. In the first case sustained neurological improvement occurred, resulting in a normal outcome by the time of discharge. In the second case, neurological deterioration occurred with the development of cerebral edema. This complication was thought to be due to normal perfusion pressure breakthrough, on the basis of angiographic arterial vasodilation and increased cerebral blood flow. These two cases illustrate an unusual complication of surgery for AVMs and demonstrate that vasospasm (along with intracranial hemorrhage, venous occlusion, and normal perfusion pressure breakthrough) should be considered in the differential diagnosis of delayed neurological deterioration following resection of these lesions. Although intraarterial papaverine may be successful in dilating spastic arteries, it may also result in pathologically high flows following AVM resection. However, this complication has not been seen in our experience of treating aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage by this technique.

Intracranial diverticulum of the frontal sinus as a complication of frontal craniotomy

1979 ◽  
Vol 51 (6) ◽  
pp. 870-871 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Anne Hayman ◽  
Alfonso E. Aldama-Luebbert ◽  
Robert A. Evans
Keyword(s):  
Frontal Sinus ◽  
Anterior Cranial Fossa ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Sinus Wall ◽  
Cranial Fossa ◽  
Sinus Mucosa ◽  
Fine Print

✓ A large air-filled intracranial extradural diverticulum of the frontal sinus mucosa was removed from the anterior cranial fossa of a 47-year-old man 2 years after fracture of the posterior sinus wall during craniotomy.

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