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Over 800 AVMs were retrospectively reviewed to determine if clinical and angioarchitectural features varied between children and adults. The authors found that hemorrhages and exclusively deep venous drainage were more common in children but high-risk features such as venous ectasia and feeding artery aneurysm were more common in adults. Thus, these latter high-risk features may take time to develop.

The authors attempted to determine if reperfusion therapy for anterior circulation acute stroke based on MR perfusion resulted in better outcomes at 3 months than that based on noncontrast CT. Perfusion imaging-selected patients had a better outcome than those selected with only noncontrast CT but MR perfusion- and CT perfusion-selected patients had similar outcomes. In this multicenter study, patients with acute stroke who underwent perfusion imaging were more than 2-fold more likely to have good outcomes following endovascular reperfusion therapy

These authors seek to establish the imaging features that would allow classification of medulloblastomas according to their genetic attributes. In nearly 100 tumors they found that groups 3 and 4 occurred predominantly in the fourth ventricle, wingless ones were located in the cerebellar peduncles or CPA region, and sonic hedgehog tumors were present in cerebellar hemispheres. Midline group 4 tumors showed minimal contrast enhancement. Thus, tumor location and contrast-enhancement patterns may be predictive of the molecular subtypes of medulloblastoma.