Microsurgical treatment of a tentorial galenic dural arteriovenous fistula

Omar Choudhri, MD, and Gary K. Steinberg, MD, PhD Stanford University Medical Center, Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford, California Tentorial dural arteriovenous fistulae (TDAVFs) are complex lesions with the arteriovenous fistula located between the leaves of the tentorium cerebelli. While a large portion of dural arteriovenous fistulae are treated endovascularly, TDAVF may require additional microsurgical treatment given their high risk of hemorrhage and multitude of feeders. We describe the case of