Spontaneous occlusion of a dissecting aneurysm in the shape of 'two dumplings on a skewer' at right posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA): Report of a case and neuroradiological findings

Neurological Surgery

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 561-567

  Suzukawa, Katsumi ^a   Amoh, Masashi ^b   Nakamura, Yuzo ^b   Yasuma, Yoshihide ^b   Kurokawa, Shigeo ^b  

^a Misato Junshin Hospital   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Dissecting aneurysm; Intramural hematoma; Ischemia; Magnetic resonance imaging; Posterior inferior cerebellar artery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIOGRAPHY; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM INFARCTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISSECTING ANEURYSM; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NEURORADIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTERIOR INFERIOR CEREBELLAR ARTERY; RADIODIAGNOSIS; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

ADULT; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0033934749     PISSN: 03012603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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