Accurate diagnosis and advanced treatment options with Mayo Clinic spine AVM experts
AVM expertise, on your side.
At Mayo Clinic, your spinal AVM care team will have the experience and knowledge to make an accurate diagnosis and tailor a care plan just for you. Using the latest treatment innovations, doctors who are skilled and experienced in all AVM treatment options will help you work toward your best possible outcomes.
Rare is more common here.
Mayo Clinic neuroradiologists have extensive imaging experience and can distinguish between spinal AVMs and other spinal lesions. This profound knowledge leads to more accurate diagnosis and more successful and appropriate treatment plans. Mayo Clinic specialists also have access to the latest in 3D imaging, which may be used in spinal AVM surgery planning for optimal results.
Innovation at work.
Mayo Clinic neurosurgeons have pioneered surgical techniques for spinal arteriovenous malformations (AVM) and provide a wide range of treatment options. Our experts treat more than 150 people with this rare condition each year. With this expertise in surgery and noninvasive treatment as well as in watchful waiting, the spinal AVM team at Mayo Clinic provides people the widest range of treatment options available.
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