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Know Region, Complexity on AV Malformation Fixes

Published on Fri Jun 03, 2022

Here’s how these conditions differ from aneurysms. When a patient presents to your neurosurgeon with an arteriovenous (AV) malformation, they’ll often need to perform intracranial surgery to treat the patient’s vascular lesion. As with most brain surgeries, the procedures (and their differences) can be a little complex. Code for the wrong anatomical area, or the wrong type of surgery, and [...]
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