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The authors review 26 patients with deep-seated cavernous angiomas which were removed by microsurgery. Ten of the angiomas were located in the insula and basal ganglia, 2 in the thalamus, 5 in the midbrain, 8 in the pons, and 1 in the brachium pontis. The patients were among 73 consecutive cases operated on between August 1983 and December 1989 for symptomatic cavernous angiomas in various locations.
In 11 cases total excision of the cavernoma was achieved without producing additional neurological deficits. Postoperative neurological recovery was delayed in 7 patients. In the remaining 8, the complicated postoperative course was caused by bleeding from residual parts of the malformation or damage to long-tract pathways in two cases, respectively, vascular injury during dissection in three cases, and paradoxical air embolism in one case. In order to achieve a satisfactory surgical result, it is stressed that particular attention has to be paid to the operative approach, to careful dissection and complete removal of the malformation, to perforating arteries, and to anomalous venous drainage.
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Bertalanffy, H., Gilsbach, J.M., Eggert, H.R. et al. Microsurgery of deep-seated cavernous angiomas: Report of 26 cases. Acta neurochir 108, 91–99 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01418515
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