Clinical Study
Dural Arteriovenous Fistulas in the Cavernous Sinus: Clinical Research and Treatment
Table 3
Time course of clinical symptoms and venous drainage in 76 patients with dural CCF.
| Types of clinical course | No. cases | Initial symptoms forehead or retro-orbital pain (at the same time) | Time until admission (mean ± SD) | Ave. No. VD (% of CVD) |
| (i) Cranial nerve palsies Only | 25 | 11(3) | 4 D–6 M () | (33%) | (ii) Cranial nerve palsiesfollowed by classical symptoms | 27 | 6(0) | 2 M–24 M () | (44%) | (iii) Classical symptoms Only | 13 | 4(0) | 1 W-14 M () | (7.7%) | (iv) Classical symptoms followed by cranial nerve palsies | 11 | 4(2) | 1 M–7 M () | (18.2%) |
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M: month; W: week; D: day; Ave: average; VD: venous drainage; CVD: cortical venous drainages. (compared with Type II): Student -test.
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