Ultrastructural pathological features of cerebrovascular malformations: a preliminary report

JH Wong, IA Awad, JH Kim - Neurosurgery, 2000 - journals.lww.com
OBJECTIVE: Although cerebrovascular malformations have been characterized
histologically, a systematic examination of such lesions by transmission electron microscopy
has not been previously published. In this preliminary study, we describe the ultrastructural
pathological features of cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) and cavernous
malformations (CMs). METHODS: Using transmission electron microscopy, we examined
three CMs and three AVMs microsurgically harvested from patients, for conventional …