2005/02/24 by Kanta Kishi, Shintaro Shirai, Tetsuo Sonomura +1 · 1 citation
Medicine · #Vascular Malformations Diagnosis and Treatment #Intracranial Aneurysms: Treatment and Complications #Spinal Dysraphism and Malformations
paper · doi:10.1259/bjr/50653404
openalex publication_date 2005/02/24 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/23
Radiotherapy has seldom been used in the treatment of arteriovenous malformations (AVM) involving the spinal cord because of the cord's limited radiation tolerance. A 57-year-old woman with progressive myelopathy due to AVM was treated with a selective conformal radiation therapy (55.6 Gy/20 days) on the nidus region preserving the spinal cord, drainer veins and involved bones. The drainers and symptoms were minimized at the end of treatment and disappeared over 2 years. This case illustrates the usefulness of selective conformal radiation therapy.