AV Malformations: Radiation Therapy

Abstract

Clinical and radiologic follow-up of 86 patients with symptomatic, but surgically inaccessible, cerebral arteriovenous malformations treated with stereotactic heavy charged particle Bragg-peak radiation is reported from the Divisions of Neurosurgery and Neuradiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, California and the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California.

Keywords

• bragg-peak radiation
• neurologic complications
• hemorrhage