Carotid artery balloon test occlusion: Combined clinical evaluation and xenon-enhanced computed tomographic cerebral blood flow evaluation without patient transfer or balloon reinflation: Technical note

Neurosurgery

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 634-637

  Barr, John D ^a   Lemley, Thomas J ^a   McCann, Richard M ^a  

^a PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aneurysm, carotid; Aneurysm, therapy; Carotid arteries, therapeutic blockade; Cerebral blood vessels, flow dynamics; Head and neck neoplasms, therapy; Xenon

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN; HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M; XENON;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BYPASS SURGERY; CAROTID ARTERY ANEURYSM; CHOLESTEATOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MENINGIOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031657813     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199809000-00144     Document Type: Article

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