Treatment of large and giant fusiform intracranial aneurysms with Guglielmi detachable coils

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 55-62

  Gobin, Y Pierre ^a,b   Viñuela, Fernando ^a   Gurian, John H ^a   Guglielmi, Guido ^a   Duckwiler, Gary R ^a   Massoud, Tarik F ^a   Martin, Neil A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

coils; endovascular occlusion; fusiform aneurysm; giant aneurysm; intracranial aneurysm

Indexed keywords

AMOBARBITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEVICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030064962     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.1996.84.1.0055     Document Type: Article

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