Summary of patient, lesion, and treatment data for 16 patients with 16 treated AVMs at Baylor College of Medicine and Semmes-Murphey Neurologic and Spine Institute
Variable | Value |
---|---|
Demographics | |
Women, n (%) | 9 (56.3) |
Median (range) age at surgery, years | 46 (20–65) |
Ruptured, n (%) | 9 (56.3) |
Clinical presentation, n (%) | |
Headache | 5 (31.2) |
Seizures | 5 (31.2) |
Increased intracranial pressure | 5 (31.2) |
Lesion location, n (%) | |
Frontal | 4 (25.0) |
Parietal | 3 (18.8) |
Temporal | 4 (25.0) |
Occipital | 2 (12.3) |
Cerebellar | 3 (23.5) |
Side, n (%) | |
Right | 9 (56.3) |
Left | 6 (37.5) |
Endovascular intervention, n (%) | |
Staged embolization | 3 (18.8) |
Immediate preoperative embolization | 8 (50.0) |
No endovascular intervention | 5 (31.2) |
Resection, n (%) | |
Complete resection on angiography | 14 (87.5) |
Perinidal hypervascularity (not residual) | 2 (12.5) |
Embolisate | |
Onyx | 8 |
n-BCA | 3 |
AVMs, arteriovenous malformations; n-BCA, n-butyl cyanoacrylate.