Endovascular treatment of mural-type vein of Galen malformations

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 74-80

  Halbach, Van V ^a   Dowd, Christopher F ^b   Higashida, Randall T ^b   Balousek, Peter A ^b   Ciricillo, Samuel F ^b   Edwards, Michael S B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Arteriovenous malformation; Children; Embolization; Mural type malformation; Platinum microcoil; Vein of Galen malformation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BRAIN VENTRICLE HEMORRHAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FOLLOW UP; GALEN VEIN; HUMAN; INFANT; NEWBORN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE THROMBOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN MALFORMATION;

EID: 0031831692     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.1998.89.1.0074     Document Type: Article

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