The role of Linac radiosurgery in multidisciplinary management for cerebral arteriovenous malformations: personal experience

Stereotact Funct Neurosurg. 1997;69(1-4 Pt 2):147-51. doi: 10.1159/000099867.

Abstract

The authors analyze their personal series of 90 patients with cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) concerning the place of radiosurgery (RS). Out of the 90 patients, 34 undervent Linac RS-RS was used as single treatment (17%) or in combination with embolization or surgery (21%.) Eradication rate assessed angiographically after 2 years was 89%. Regarding this personal series and the recent literature, several questions remain: should small superficial AVMs revealed by hemorrhage be irradiated or operated on and the role of embolization as a reductive method before RS in order to reduce the complications and improve the obliteration rates.

MeSH terms

  • Cerebral Angiography
  • Combined Modality Therapy
  • Embolization, Therapeutic*
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Humans
  • Intracranial Arteriovenous Malformations / diagnostic imaging
  • Intracranial Arteriovenous Malformations / surgery*
  • Intracranial Arteriovenous Malformations / therapy*
  • Radiosurgery*
  • Treatment Outcome