| Abstract: | Conventional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and spine magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) demonstrated a glomus-type intradural arteriovenous malformation of the upper cervical region of the spine in a 24-year-old woman. Gadolinium-enhanced, three-dimensional, phase-contrast angiography displayed the nidus and feeders of the arteriovenous malformation. The clinical features of the two most common types of spinal arteriovenous malformations (dural arteriovenous fistula and glomus intradural arteriovenous malformation) are reviewed. Conventional MRI and spine MRA may obviate the need for performing total spinal myelography in patients suspected of having spinal arteriovenous malformations. |
