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Axis fracture due to giant cranial AVM

Author(s) -

Lydia Karamani,

Nikola Reinhard Dürr,

Bogdana Suchorska,

Martin Scholz,

Friedhelm Brassel

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

oxford medical case reports

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.169

H-Index - 9

ISSN - 2053-8855

DOI - 10.1093/omcr/omab075

Subject(s) - medicine , osteolysis , arteriovenous malformation , complication , maxilla , asymptomatic , radiology , mandible (arthropod mouthpart) , anatomy , surgery , botany , biology , genus

Cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) are a vascular anomaly consisting of a bundle of direct connection of arteries and veins. AVMs clinical expression ranges from complete asymptomatic, and thus incidentally found, to life threatening with rupturing and bleeding. In this wide spectrum, osteolysis is considered as a rare complication of interosseous AVMs, and only few cases of mandible and maxilla osteolysis have been reported. We present, herein, a case of an intracranial AVM, which has caused in the course of the time an osteolysis of the dens and axis.

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