Treatments and Locations

Treatments and Locations

• Surgery (craniotomy). If the amount of bleeding is large, your neurosurgeon may perform surgery to remove the blood and relieve pressure on your brain. Surgery may also be used to remove a cavernoma that has bled or grown over time.
• Stereotactic radiosurgery, sometimes referred to as Gamma Knife surgery, involves using multiple beams of highly focused radiation. Stereotactic radiosurgery is an advanced non-invasive treatment that can used be to treat some types of brain vascular malformations.