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The main aim of this study is to define the clinical criteria which
must be considered in order to come to an adequate decision whether
a patient with intracranial arteriovenous malformation (AVM) should
be operated upon or treated conservatively. A special method was
used to reduce the effects of selection. This method made it
possible to evaluate the therapeutic efficacy of conservative
treatment versus surgery. The method implies that patients with
equal combinations of variables (risk profiles) were compared in
the two treatment lines. The variables building up the risk-profile
pattern were chosen by analysing the decision process, as it was
originally practiced by the surgeon who selected and treated the
patients of this study. The risk profiles thus described relevant
characteristics of the patient and his malformation. The variables
were assigned numerical values accord ing to their prognostic
value. Summation of the variables making up the risk profile then
gives each risk profile a certain value. A low value symbolizes a
bad prognosis and a high value a good prognosis in both treatment
groups. There were many risk profiles with the same value in both
groups and a comparison could be made over a large part of the
risk-profile scale. This comparison showed that surgical treatment
of A VM can always be justified, although the indications for
surgery are less strong in patients with low risk profile values."
The Committee of Neurotraumatology of the World Federation of
Neurosurgical Societies decided to elaborate a Glossary of Neuro-
traumatology, and for this purpose appointed a subgroup of members
of this Committee, headed by Dr. E. S. Gurdjian, whose report
follows this preface. The main reason for the Committee's decision
was the hope that the diffusion of the Glossary through "Acta
Neurochirurgica" may bring about a better understanding of
neurotraumatological terminology on a worldwide scale. The Glossary
should facilitate the classification and the comparison of
traumatic lesions of the Nervous System. It will consequently be
easier to compile statistics and correctly interpret the
informations thus obtained. The very commendable initiative of the
Congress of Neurological Surgeons in revising the terminology of
head injuries and in publishing this work in Vol. 12 (1966) of
"Clinical Neurosurgery" constitutes an important contribution. In
1977 the Glossary now presented endeav- ours to complete and bring
up to date the definitions of anatomical or physiological
modifications in the neurotraumatological field. We wish to express
our thanks to Dr. Gurdjian and to the other members of the
Neurotraumatological Committee who were responsible for the
elaboration of this Glossary and whose efforts to standardise, as
much as possible, the language used by scientists of different
nationalities, have resulted in a better understanding between
neurosurgeons.
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