Treatments and Locations

Treatments and Locations

• Surgery. A neurosurgeon can remove the brain or spinal AVM from the surrounding tissue via a craniotomy or a laminectomy.
• Endovascular embolization. Using a catheter inserted into an artery in your groin or wrist, a neurointerventionalist can reach the brain or spinal AVM under x-ray guidance and deploy tiny detachable coils or liquid agents to help block the blood flow within the vascular malformation.
• 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.