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Rare Co-Occurrence Of Dural Arteriovenous Fistula And Arteriovenous Malformation With Bilateral Subcortical And Basal Ganglia Calcification, Raza Sayani, Zahid Anwar Khan, Tanveer-Ul-Haq, Rana Shoaib Hamid, Muhammed Azeemuddin
Rare Co-Occurrence Of Dural Arteriovenous Fistula And Arteriovenous Malformation With Bilateral Subcortical And Basal Ganglia Calcification, Raza Sayani, Zahid Anwar Khan, Tanveer-Ul-Haq, Rana Shoaib Hamid, Muhammed Azeemuddin
Department of Radiology
The present study describes the imaging findings in a patient with dural arteriovenous fistula (AVR) and arteriovenous malformation (AVM) with bilateral subcortical and basal ganglia calcification. A 29 year old male patient presented with chief complaint of recent onset of generalized tonic clonic seizures and mild disorientation. The imaging studies on MCT demonstrated diffuse, symmetric calcification in the bilateral basal ganglia and subcortical white matter. MR imaging and angiography revealed AVM in parietooccipital region with supply predominantly from left posterior cerebral and middle cerebral arteries. Multiple dural feeders from meningeal branches of occipital and superficial temporal branches of bilateral external …
Concurrent Intracranial And Spinal Arteriovenous Malformations: Report Of Two Pediatric Cases And Literature Review, Hussain Shallwani, Muhammad Zubair Tahir, Muhammad Ehsan Bari, Tanveer Ul Haq
Concurrent Intracranial And Spinal Arteriovenous Malformations: Report Of Two Pediatric Cases And Literature Review, Hussain Shallwani, Muhammad Zubair Tahir, Muhammad Ehsan Bari, Tanveer Ul Haq
Medical College Documents
Background: Concurrent intracranial and spinal arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) are very rare with only a few cases being reported in literature. Two of the rare concurrent intracranial and spinal AVM cases are presented.
Case description: Case 1 is a 12-year-old girl with headache and motor disturbances in the lower limbs. Her spinal and brain angiogram was done and she was diagnosed to have a spinal AVM at level T8-T9 and an intracranial AVM in the left mesial temporal lobe. Her spinal AVM was embolized, while no treatment was given for her intracranial AVM. Case 2 is a 10-year-old girl who presented …