Anomalous Internal Carotid Artery-Anterior Cerebral Artery Anastomosis Associated with Fenestration and Cerebral Aneurysm: —Case Report—

Neurologia medico-chirurgica

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 229-233

  Fujimura, Miki ^a   Seki, Hirobumi ^a   Sugawara, Takayuki ^a   Oku, Tatsuya ^a   Higuchi, Hiroshi ^a   Tomichi, Nobukazu ^b  

^a Department of Neurosurgery ^*  (Japan)

^b Iwate Prefectural Central Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

arterial anomaly; cerebral aneurysm; internal carotid artery; subarachnoid hemorrhage

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR MALFORMATION; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; LUNG EDEMA; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM, RUPTURED; ARTERIOVENOUS ANASTOMOSIS; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; FENESTRATION, LABYRINTH; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0029869147     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.36.229     Document Type: Article

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