Angles between a1 and a2 segments of the anterior cerebral artery visualized by three-dimensional computed tomographic angiography and association of anterior communicating artery aneurysms

Neurosurgery

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 89-94

  Kasuya, Hidetoshi ^a,b   Shimizu, Takashi ^a,b   Nakaya, Kotaro ^a,b   Sasahara, Atsushi ^a,b   Hori, Tomokatsu ^a   Takakura, Kintomo ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Saiseikai Kurihashi Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aneurysm; Angiography; Anterior cerebral artery; Anterior communicating artery; Hemodynamics

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; ANTERIOR COMMUNICATING ARTERY; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; BRAIN CIRCULUS ARTERIOSUS; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REFERENCE VALUE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CIRCLE OF WILLIS; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0033056361     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199907000-00021     Document Type: Article

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