Introduction: Conventional management of high-flow vascular malformations involves embolisation
of feeding vessels with occluding materials, including coils, microspheres or gelatin
sponges. Frequently lesions develop a new blood supply via collaterals necessitating
further treatment by surgical excision. More recently, it has been recognised that
filing and obliterating the nidus of the lesion results in far lower risk of developing
collaterals and, consequently a reduced requirement for surgical excision
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