Treatment of intracranial dural arteriovenous fistulas: Current strategies based on location and hemodynamics, and alternative techniques of transcatheter embolization

Radiographics

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1637-1653

  Kiyosue, Hiro ^a   Hori, Yuzo ^a   Okahara, Mika ^a   Tanoue, Shuichi ^a   Sagara, Yoshiko ^a   Matsumoto, Shunro ^a   Nagatomi, Hirofumi ^b   Mori, Hiromu ^a  

^a OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Nagatomi Neurosurgical Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Angiography, 17.124; Arteries, therapeutic embolization, 17.1264; Arteriovenous malformations, dural, 17.75; Cavernous sinus, 176.757; Fistula, arteriovenous, 17.757; Fistula, therapeutic embolization, 17.1264; Sinuses, dural, 176.757

Indexed keywords

ENBUCRILATE;

ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; BLEEDING; CATHETER; CAVERNOUS SINUS; CEREBELLUM TENTORIUM; CEREBRAL SINUS THROMBOSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FISTULA; COIL EMBOLIZATION; DEMENTIA; DURA MATER; EXPERIENCE; FATALITY; HEALTH HAZARD; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; REVIEW; STENT; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; SUPERIOR SAGITTAL SINUS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOM;

EID: 10044290835     PISSN: 02715333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/rg.246045026     Document Type: Review

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