Assistance of intraoperative microvascular Doppler in the surgical obliteration of spinal dural arteriovenous fistula: Cases description and technical considerations

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 145, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 133-137

  Iacopino, Domenico Gerardo ^a   Conti, A ^a   Giusa, M ^a   Cardali, S ^a   Tomasello, F ^a   Hassler, W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b Policlinico Universitario ^*

Author keywords

Dural arteriovenous fistula; Intraoperative monitoring; Spine; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; DURA MATER; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT MONITORING; PEROPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL ANGIOGRAPHY; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD LESION; SURGICAL APPROACH; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM VASCULAR MALFORMATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPINAL CORD DISEASES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 0037287198     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-002-1039-x     Document Type: Article

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