A report on the safety of unilateral vertebral artery ligation during cervical spine surgery

Spine

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1454-1457

  Hoshino, Yuichi ^a,b   Kurokawa, Takahide ^a   Nakamura, Kozo ^a   Seichi, Atsushi ^a   Mamada, Toshikatsu ^a   Saita, Kazuo ^a   Miyoshi, Kohta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

cervical spine; tumor; vertebral artery

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY LIGATION; BLEEDING; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; SPINE SURGERY; SPINE TUMOR; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; LIGATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 0029941864     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007632-199606150-00011     Document Type: Conference Paper

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