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The pathology of arteriovenous malformations of the brain treated by embolotherapy
Light microscopic and immunohistochemical examination was undertaken of intracranial arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) surgically resected from 18 patients, each of whom had undergone preoperative angiographi...
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Use of a new mixture for embolization of intracranial vascular malformations
The internal carotid artery system in swine has a special anatomic configuration similar to a brain “arterial-arterial malformation”. The internal carotid artery breaks up into a multitude of fine channels (re...
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Stroke related to cerebral amyloid angiopathy: the significance of systemic vascular disease
A retrospective postmortem analysis of 25 cases of cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) in the setting of Alzheimer's disease or senile dementia of the Alzheimer type (AD/SDAT) is reported. Seven patients experie...
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The pathology of encephalic arteriovenous malformations treated by prior embolotherapy
A pathologic study was undertaken of seven encephalic arteriovenous malformations, including five resected from one to seven days after balloon embolization, one resected 10 days after embolization with polyvi...
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The histotoxicity of cyanoacrylates
Cyanoacrylates, a group of rapidly polymerizing adhesives, have found widespread uses in oral and general surgery as well as surgical subspecialties, for example as hemostatic and anastomotic agents. They have...