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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 May 2012

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

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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 …