An unusual fatal complication of low basilar trunk aneurysm surgery: Isolated prepontine tension pneumocephalus

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 485-489

  Inci, Servet ^a   Çirak, Bayram ^a   Bertan, Vural ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Complication; Pneumocephalus; Prepontine cistern; Sitting position

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANEURYSM CLIP; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMAN; NEUROSURGERY; PNEUMOCEPHALUS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

BASILAR ARTERY; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMOCEPHALUS; PONS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032760981     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-3019(99)00040-3     Document Type: Article

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