Treatment and outcome in 30 patients with posterior cerebral artery aneurysms

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 15-22

  Taylor, Christopher L ^a   Kopitnik Jr , Thomas A ^a   Samson, Duke S ^a   Purdy, Phillip D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral aneurysm; Endovascular therapy; Microsurgery; Posterior cerebral artery; Subarachnoid hemorrhage; Treatment outcome

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRAIN VASOSPASM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY ANEURYSM; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANKIN SCALE; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

EID: 0037971139     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.2003.99.1.0015     Document Type: Article

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