Surgical management of fusiform aneurysms of the peripheral posteroinferior cerebellar artery

Neurosurgery

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 831-835

  Nussbaum, Eric S ^a,c   Mendez, Alejandro ^a   Camarata, Paul ^b   Sebring, Leslie ^a   Solomon, Robert A ^d   Hunt Batjer, H ^d   Lawton, Michael T ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b North Kansas City School District   (United States)

^c St Joseph's Hospital   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Aneurysm; Bypass; Fusiform; Posteroinferior cerebellar artery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; IMAGING; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; POSTERIOR INFERIOR CEREBELLAR ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0141529724     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000084162.29616.43     Document Type: Article

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