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. 1985 Jan-Feb;6(1):29-32.

Unruptured intracranial arteriovenous malformations do cause mass effect.

A J Kumar, F Viñuela, A J Fox, A E Rosenbaum
PMCID: PMC8334579  PMID: 3918417

Abstract

Sixty patients with clinically unruptured intracranial arteriovenous malformations were studied with high-resolution computed tomography. In 33, local and distant mass effects were evidenced by compression, distortion, and displacement of normal anatomic structures by the malformation, its afferent and efferent vessels, and the surrounding edema.

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