Treatment of acute intracranial vertebrobasilar dissection with angioplasty and stent placement: Report of two cases

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 985-989

  Willing, Steven J ^a,b   Skidmore, Frank ^a   Donaldson, Jill ^a   Nobo, Ulises Lisandro ^a   Chernukha, Konstantin ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE; FOSPHENYTOIN SODIUM; HEPARIN; NORLEUCINE;

ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ANGIOPLASTY; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; MALE; STENT; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; ANGIOPLASTY; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; STENTS; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY DISSECTION;

EID: 0037502970     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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