Significance of a small bulge on the basilar artery in patients with perimesencephalic nonaneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: Report of two cases

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 426-429

  Matsumaru, Yuji ^a   Yanaka, Kiyoyuki ^a   Muroi, Ai ^a   Sato, Hiroaki ^a   Kamezaki, Takao ^a   Nose, Tadao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Basilar artery; Dissecting aneurysm; Subarachnoid hemorrhage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISSECTING ANEURYSM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PERIMESENCEPHALIC NONANEURYSMAL SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037307577     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.2003.98.2.0426     Document Type: Article

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