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From our series of 203 patients with cerebral vascular lesions, 18 (9%) could be included in the multiple arteriovenous malformation category. There were five patients with Rendu-Osler-Weber, one with Wyburn-Mason syndromes and two with concurrent arteriovenous malformations. The remaining ten patients (4%) had multiple brain arteriovenous malformations. Careful angiography with magnification is necessary to try to diagnose multiple brain AVMs, since these sometimes become apparent only after embolization of a larger dominant AVM. The incidence, of multiple brain arteriovenous malformations is likely to have been underestimated due to the failure to recognize microarteriovenous malformations associated with larger arteriovenous malformations.
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Willinsky, R.A., Lasjaunias, P., Terbrugge, K. et al. Multiple cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVMs). Neuroradiology 32, 207–210 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00589113
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