1. Spontaneous Healing of Intracranial Dural Fistula
Z. Jamaleddine, R Labbioui, F. A El Quessar Department of radiology Cheikh Zaid hospital RABAT- MOROCCO

2. OBSERVATION Patient 53 years
Installation of a rapidly progressive cerbellar syndrome with vertigo,
Gait and speech disorder.

4. MAY18th 2010: Initial arteriography was performed, AVF.
External carotid unexplored.

5. June 5th 2010: A second angiogrphy
An significant slowdown of the fistula  
No abnormality of the external carotid angiograms.

6. December 9th 2010:
The last inspection was performed after 6 months, normal.

7. Discussion Spontaneous recovery is rare,
Few cases reported in the literature.
Several assumptions:
Thrombosis of the sinus drainage.
Cerebral hemorrhage with mass effect of hematoma.
Vasospasm .
Post angiography.

8. The majority of spontaneous recovery of interest to the type I (table), the sudden disappearance of the symptoms and spontaneous is the most common clinical presentation.
Alain Luciani, Emmanuel Houdart, Charbel Mounayer,Jean-Pierre Saint Maurice and Jean-Jacques Merland, Spontaneous Closure of Dural Arteriovenous Fistulas: Report of Three Cases and Review of the Literature, American Journal of Neuroradiology 22: (5 2001).

9. Conclusion
Spontaneous closure of the dural fistula is a rare event and are interested mainly type I fistulas, the sudden disappearance of symptoms is the usual clinical presentation. 

10. References:
Will Adams; Peter Whitfield, ACNR • VOLUME 7 NUMBER 3 • JULY/AUGUST 2007.
Alain Luciani, Emmanuel Houdart, Charbel Mounayer,Jean-Pierre Saint Maurice and Jean-Jacques Merland, Spontaneous Closure of Dural Arteriovenous Fistulas: Report of Three Cases and Review of the Literature, American Journal of Neuroradiology 22: (5 2001).
E. Houdart, J.-P. Saint-Maurice , R. Chapot J.-J. Merland, Fistules artérioveineuses durales intracrâniennes, Encyclopédie Médico-Chirurgicale  , (2003).
P. TABRIZI, R.F. SPETZLER, C.MCDOUGALL, F.C.ALBUQUERQUE, Cerebral Dural arteriovenous Fistula, Interventional Neuroradiology 9 (Suppl 2): , 2003.