Neurological picture. A case of brain embolism during catheter embolisation of head arteriovenous malformation. What is the mechanism of stroke?

J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2007 Jan;78(1):81. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.2006.098517.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Catheterization
  • Embolization, Therapeutic / adverse effects*
  • Heart Septal Defects, Atrial
  • Humans
  • Intracranial Arteriovenous Malformations / therapy*
  • Intracranial Embolism / complications
  • Intracranial Embolism / etiology*
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Respiration, Artificial
  • Stroke / etiology*
  • Stroke / physiopathology