Giant basilar artery aneurysm with intramural hemorrhage and then disastrous hemorrhage: Case report

Neurosurgery

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 174-178

  Koyama, Seigo ^a   Kotani, Akio ^a   Sasaki, Jun ^a  

^a Yokohama Chuou Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Basilar tip aneurysm; Giant aneurysm; Intramural hemorrhage; Obstructive hydrocephalus; Subarachnoid hemorrhage

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

AGED; ANEURYSM, RUPTURED; BASILAR ARTERY; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0029901926     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199607000-00039     Document Type: Article

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