ENDOVASCULAR TREATMENT OF PERIPHERAL ARTE RIOVENOUS-MALFORMATIONS

The progress made by noninvasive exploration for the assessment of vas cular malformations now allows the therapeutic strategies to be better established. While observation and conservative methods are most ofte n chosen, some arteriovenous malformations lead to contemplating a pal liative or curative treatment. In these cases, embolization currently plays a great role, associated or not to surgery. This embolization ob viously can be contemplated only after a collegial decision to treat t hese malformations has been made, knowing that they may be silent or a cquire an uncontrolable evolution potential. The authors present 3 cas es of peripheral arteriovenous malformations, treated by an endovascul ar way, and remind the principles and indications of these embolizatio ns.