[Pathological tortuosity of intracranial arteries (pure arterial malformation) - diagnosis and management tactics].

Tortuosity of intracranial arteries is an extremely rare disease with the highest incidence in young women. This abnormality has no specific clinical manifestations and does not require surgical or conservative treatment. Tortuosity of intracranial arteries should be differentiated from arterial dolichoectasia, fusiform aneurysms and AVMs.