Technical aspects and recent trends in the management of large and giant midbasilar artery aneurysms

Neurosurgery

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 513-521

  Lawton, Michael T ^a   Daspit, C Phillip ^a   Spetzler, Robert F ^a  

^a BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cranial base surgery; Far lateral approach; Midbasilar artery aneurysm; Orbitozygomatic approach; Petrosectomy; Skull base surgery; Surgical approach

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SKULL BASE; SKULL SURGERY; SURGICAL APPROACH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BASILAR ARTERY; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CHILD; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEART ARREST, INDUCED; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORBIT; PETROUS BONE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURVIVAL RATE; TEMPORAL BONE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030845338     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199709000-00001     Document Type: Article

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