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Vein of Galen and Non-Galenic Cerebral Arteriovenous Fistulas

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These are intradural lesions, which mostly occur in infants and children. The incidence is difficult to gauge, but they represent no more than 15% of paediatric patients seen in large centres.

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    The velum interpositum is the space between the roof of the third ventricle below and the corpus callosum. It is the anterior part of what was described by Bichat [9] as ‘the great transverse cleft of the brain’. The posterior part (with which it is continuous) being the quadrageminal cistern, i.e. the subarachnoid space over the dorsal surface of the midbrain.

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Byrne, J.V. (2012). Vein of Galen and Non-Galenic Cerebral Arteriovenous Fistulas. In: Tutorials in Endovascular Neurosurgery and Interventional Neuroradiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19154-1_12

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