Stereotactic radiosurgery reduces stroke risk in patients with small unruptured brain AVMs
Stereotactic radiosurgery reduces stroke risk in patients with small unruptured brain AVMs
Heather Wood
Nature Reviews Neurology 12, 313 (2016) doi:10.1038/nrneurol.2016.63
Published online 22 April 2
Brain arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) carry an elevated risk of stroke, but therapeutic intervention in individuals with unruptured AVMs can sometimes do more harm than good. A new retrospective study reported in Stroke has demonstrated the benefits of stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) — one of the least invasive AVM interventions — in patients with…
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