Successful management of a symptomatic fusiform dilatation of the internal carotid artery following surgery of childhood craniopharyngioma

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 717-721

  Tirakotai, Wuttipong ^a   Sure, Ulrich ^a   Benes, Ludwig ^a   Aboul Enein, Hisham ^a   Schulte, Dirk Michael ^a   Riegel, Thomas ^a   Bertalanffy, Helmut ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carotid artery; Craniopharyngioma; Fusiform aneurysm

Indexed keywords

ARTERY CLAMP; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN TUMOR; CASE REPORT; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY ANEURYSM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ANEURYSM; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CHILD; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036922898     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-002-0666-0     Document Type: Article

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