Endovascular management of spinal vascular malformations
- 5 May 2009
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Neurosurgical Review
- Vol. 33 (1), 1-9
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10143-009-0204-6
Abstract
Spinal vascular malformations are rare diseases with a wide variety of neurological presentations. In this article, arteriovenous malformations (both from the fistulous and glomerular type) and spinal dural arteriovenous fistulae are described and an overview about their imaging features on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and digital subtraction angiography is given. Clinical differential diagnoses, the neurological symptomatology and the potential therapeutic approaches of these diseases which vary depending on the underlying pathology are given. Although MRI constitutes the diagnostic modality of first choice in suspected spinal vascular malformation, a definite diagnosis of the disease and therefore the choice of suited therapeutic approach rests on selective spinal angiography. Treatment in symptomatic patients offers an improvement in the prognosis. In most spinal vascular malformations, the endovascular approach is the method of first choice; in selected cases, a combined or surgical therapy may be considered.Keywords
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