PEDIATRICS Vol. 53 No. 4 April 1974, pp. 571-572
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Surgical Treatment of A Ruptured Intracerebral Arteriovenous Malformation In A Newborn

Robert A. Beatty M.D.1

1 Department of Neurological Surgery, Abraham Lincoln School of Medicine, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois 60612

Intracranial hemorrhage in the newborn is not common, excluding bleeding secondary to traumatic birth. It is the author's experience that the medical community generally regards intracranial bleeding in infants as hopeless and often favors a nihilistic therapeutic approach. This paper describes a newborn who appeared in extremis from a ruptured intracerebral arteriovenous malformation (AVM) which was successfully resected.