Surgical transvenous embolization of a carotid-cavernous dural fistula with cortical drainage via a petrosal vein: Two technical case reports

Neurosurgery

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1380-1384

  Hara, Tsuyoshi ^a   Hamada, Jun ichiro ^a   Kai, Yutaka ^a   Ushio, Yukitaka ^a   Sadato, Akiyo ^b   Hashimoto, Nobuo ^b   Ringer, Andrew J ^b   Tew Jr , John M ^b   Awad, Issam A ^b   Steinberg, Gary K ^b  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cavernous sinus; Dural arteriovenous fistula; Endovascular; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CAROTID ARTERIOGRAPHY; CAROTID CAVERNOUS FISTULA; CASE REPORT; CAVERNOUS SINUS; COIL EMBOLIZATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIECTOMY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PETROSAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

CAROTID-CAVERNOUS SINUS FISTULA; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DURA MATER; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; VEINS;

EID: 0036626712     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-200206000-00036     Document Type: Article

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