"true" aneurysm of the posterior communicating artery as a possible effect of collateral circulation in a patient with occlusion of the internal carotid artery. A case study and literature review

Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 240-244

  Kaspera, W ^a   Majchrzak, H ^a   Kopera, M ^a   Ladzinski P ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

Author keywords

"True" Posterior Communicating Artery Aneurysm; Aneurysm Development; Carotid Occlusion; Transcranial Colour Coded Real Time Sonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; CASE REPORT; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; POSTERIOR COMMUNICATING ARTERY ANEURYSM; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; VERTEBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ANEURYSM, RUPTURED; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 0036948217     PISSN: 09467211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2002-36194     Document Type: Article

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