Lauren A Beslow, Arastoo Vossough, Helen Kim, Jeffrey Nelson, Michael T Lawton, Jeffrey Pollak, Doris D M Lin, Felix Ratjen, Adrienne M Hammill, Steven W Hetts, James R Gossage, Kevin J Whitehead, Marie E Faughnan, Timo Krings
OBJECTIVE: The brain arteriovenous malformation (BAVM) nidus compactness score (CS), determined on angiography, predicts BAVM recurrence after surgical resection among children with sporadic BAVMs. We measured the angiographic CS for BAVMs among children with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) to determine CS characteristics in this population. METHODS: A pediatric interventional neuroradiologist reviewed angiograms to determine the CS of BAVMs in children with HHT recruited to the BVMC...
March 22, 2024: Child's Nervous System: ChNS: Official Journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery