Philadelphia Eagles defensive tackle Mike Patterson has a brain condition that may require surgery, team trainer Rick Burkholder said. Burkholder said Thursday morning that Patterson is undergoing further tests and is listed in stable condition. The 28-year-old player was hospitalized after suffering a seizure Wednesday morning at training camp at Lehigh University. "In medicine today, there's tons of options," Burkholder said. "Everybody wants to jump right into surgery and I'm not saying for this particular case, I'm saying with everything, but there's so many other avenues out there. It would be foolish to speculate what's going to happen to Mike." The 6-foot-1, 300-pound Patterson has been diagnosed with arteriovenous malformation (AVM), which is the tangling of blood vessels near the skull. "We're pretty sure it's what caused the seizure and we're pretty sure it's not football-related," Burkholder said. "It just so happened at football practice. It could've happened anywhere." Read more: http://espn.go.com/nfl/trainingcamp...hiladelphia-eagles-tangle-blood-vessels-skull
