Giant aneurysm of the azygos pericallosal artery: Case report and review of the literature

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 524-533

  Topsakal, Cahide ^a,b   Ozveren, M Faik ^a   Erol, Fatih S ^a   Cihangiroglu, Mutlu ^a   Cetin, Hasan ^a  

^a FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Azygos pericallosal artery; Cerebral aneurysm; Cerebral angiography; Distal anterior cerebral artery; Pericallosal aneurysm

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANEURYSM CLIP; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; AZYGOS PERICALLOSAL ARTERY; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM RUPTURE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0345549641     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-3019(03)00319-7     Document Type: Article

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