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Introduction A brain arteriovenous malformation (AVM) is a tangle of dysplastic blood vessels characterized by abnormal connections between arteries and veins. Dilated arteries and a nidus drained by arterialized veins without intervening capillaries form a high-flow, low-resistance shunt between the…
Surgical management of brain arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) is one of the most challenging in neurosurgery and, despite the relative rarity of the disease, the subject of a disproportionally large fraction of the literature on surgical cerebrovascular disease. Perioperative and anesthetic…