Abstract
A rare case of spontaneous cerebellar hemorrhages from tentorial dural AVM is described. A 48-year-old man, who had suffered two cerebellar hemorrhages at 1 and 7 months previously, respectively, was admitted to our hospital with headache and vertigo. Vertebral angiography demonstrated a tentorial dural AVM fed by meningeal branches from the left vertebral artery. The AVM was successfully resected by a combined occipital-suboccipital approach. In the literature, we found 62 other patients with tentorial dural AVM. Of the total of 63 patients, 38 presented with intracranial bleeding. We infer that dural AVM at this location is more likely to bleed when compared with those at other intracranial locations except for the anterior cranial fossa.
