Spontaneous occlusion of a giant basilar tip aneurysm and a basilar artery due to the dissection of both structures: Case report

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 606-609

  Maeda M d , Keiichiro ^a   Usui M d , Masaaki ^b   Tsutsumi M d , Kazuo ^a   Iijima M d , Akira ^a  

^a Central Aizu General Hospital   (Japan)

^b TORANOMON HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Basilar artery; Dissection; Giant aneurysm; Spontaneous occlusion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANEURYSM; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BASILAR ARTERY; BLEEDING; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN THIRD VENTRICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; BASILAR ARTERY; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS;

EID: 0030679753     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-3019(96)00544-7     Document Type: Article

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