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KMID : 0351819840250020163
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Kyunpook University Medical Journal
1984 Volume.25 No. 2 p.163 ~ p.168
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Clinical Observation on Large, Supratentorial Arteriovenous Malformations
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Sung Joo-Kyung
Hamm In-Suk
Park Yeun-Mook
Kim Seung-Lae
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Abstract
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Clinical analyses were made on 25 patients with supratentorial large arteriovenous malformations. The ratio of male to female was 5.4 to 1 in incidence. The age group, 21-40, in male took up 60% of the total cases, and the average age of the diagnosed was 31. Sixty percent of all lesions were found in the right cerebral hemisphere and 40% each in parietal and frontal lobe, which was found to be the highest incidence. The order of manifestated neurologic symptoms and signs was, headche, hemorrhagic symptoms, disturbance of consciousness, motor and sensory deficit, seizure and bruit.
Sixty eight percent of the whole cases had evidence of hemorrhage and initial hemorrhage occurred at ages in such percentage as follows, 39.4% each between the ages of 21 and 30, and 30 and 40, and the percentage of hemorrhage among those bleow 40 was 88.2%. Of the 52 percent operated cases, there was no death. The results of operation were, improved 69.2%, 15.4% each in unchanged and worsened.
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