Trapping and revascularization for a dissecting aneurysm of the proximal posteroinferior cerebellar artery: Technical case report and review of the literature

Neurosurgery

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 258-263

  Ali, Mir Jafer ^a   Bendok, Bernard R ^a   Tawk, Rabih G ^a   Getch, Christopher C ^a   Batjer, H Hunt ^a   Sekhar, Laligam N ^b   Rak, Ramin ^b   Lemole Jr , Michael ^b   Henn, Jeffery S ^b   Spetzler, Robert F ^b   Solomon, Robert A ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Dissecting aneurysm; Posteroinferior cerebellar artery; Revascularization; Subarachnoid hemorrhage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BYPASS SURGERY; CASE REPORT; DISSECTING ANEURYSM; FALSE ANEURYSM; HUMAN; IMAGING; MALE; MICROSURGERY; NERVE COMPRESSION; POSTERIOR INFERIOR CEREBELLAR ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; ANEURYSM, FALSE; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBRAL REVASCULARIZATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; REOPERATION; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036664780     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-200207000-00043     Document Type: Article

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