A case of a traumatic anterior cerebral artery aneurysm following the penetration of the skull base by an iron rod

Neurological Surgery

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 583-589

  Nakai, Hirofumi ^a   Kawata, Yoshikatsu ^b   Tamura, Yasuo ^b   Tanaka, Tatsuya ^b   Hodozuka, Akira ^b   Hashizume, Kiyotaka ^b   Tosho, Takuro ^b   Matsui, Reiko ^b   Iwakiri, Hiromasa ^b  

^a ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Penetrating head injury; Skull base fracture; Traumatic cerebral aneurysm; Traumatic SAH

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISORIENTATION; HEAD INJURY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PENETRATING TRAUMA; RHINORRHEA; SKULL BASE; VOMITING;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; IRON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SKULL BASE; SKULL FRACTURES; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 0032984471     PISSN: 03012603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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