Subarachnoid hemorrhage from vertebrobasilar dissecting aneurysm treated with staged bilateral vertebral artery occlusion: The importance of early follow-up angiography: Technical case report

Neurosurgery

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1258-1263

  Redekop, Gary ^a   TerBrugge, Karel ^b   Willinsky, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Balloon occlusion; Dissecting aneurysm; Endovascular therapy; Subarachnoid hemorrhage; Vertebrobasilar system

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; DISSECTING ANEURYSM; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

ADULT; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 0032730387     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199911000-00056     Document Type: Article

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