Giant Unruptured Aneurysm of the Vertebral Artery Presenting with Rapidly Progressing Bulbar Compression: —Case Report—

Neurologia medico-chirurgica

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 907-910

  Aoki, Nobuhiko ^a   Sakai, Tatsuo ^a   Oikawa, Akihiro ^a   Takizawa, Touichirou ^b  

^a Departments of Neurosurgery   (Japan)

^b Tokyo Metropolitan Health and Medical Treatment Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

aneurysmectomy; brainstem; giant aneurysm; organization; vertebral artery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANEURYSM; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE REPORT; COMA; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; THROMBUS; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

AGED; BRAIN STEM; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 0031452842     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.37.907     Document Type: Article

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