[Congenital arterio-venous malformations. Long-term therapeutic effects of arterial ligatures. A plea for their abandon in favour of more recent procedures (author's transl)].
It is well known that proximal arterial ligations have no curative effect on arterio-venous malformations, unfortunately however they are still employed. The immediate and late consequences of such ligatures have been studied by analysing 36 out of 142 cases of arterio-venous malformations. These ligatures interfere with ulterior treatment. At present such a treatment relies on a combination of radio-surgical treatment associated with embolization and complete surgical excision of the malformation, whenever it is possible.
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