✓ The advent of magnetic resonance (MR) imaging has permitted the recognition of many
angiographically occult vascular malformations before the development of complications …

A retrospective analysis of 139 patients with brain stem cavernous malformations is
presented. The material consists of 41 cases from Bern and Phoenix and 98 further well …

✓ The incidence and natural history of the cavernous angioma have remained unclear in
part because of the difficulty of diagnosing and following this lesion prior to surgical excision …

The authors review the pertinent literature dealing with all aspects of cerebral cavernous
malformations in the adult. Clinical, neuroradiological, pathological, and epidemiological …

Abstract INTRACRANIAL CAVERNOUS MALFORMATIONS are vascular anomalies
consisting of endothelium-lined caverns filled with blood at various stages of thrombosis and …

Abstract DURING THE PERIOD from 1977 to August 1992, 100 intramedullary tumors in 94
patients were operated on in the Department of Neurosurgery at the Nordstadt Hospital in …

✓ The benefits of radiosurgery for cavernous malformations are difficult to assess because of
the unclear natural history of this vascular lesion, the inability to image malformation vessels …

Abstract CAVERNOUS ANGIOMAS OF the spinal cord are rare lesions that can cause
severe neurological symptoms. We add a series of 6 patients with intramedullary cavernous …

✓ Once they become symptomatic, cavernous malformations of the brain stem appear to
cause progressive morbidity from repetitive hemorrhage, and can even be fatal. Twenty-four …

✓ Cavernous malformations that are associated with seizures are often treated by surgical
resection consisting of lesion removal,“lesionectomy,” alone. Through retrospective analysis …