Ruptured Saccular Aneurysm of a Dolichoectatic Internal Carotid Artery in a Patient with Agenesis of the Contralateral Internal Carotid Artery: Case Report

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 20-23

  Amano, Toshiyuki ^a,b   Inamura, Takanori ^b   Matsukado, Koichiro ^a   Yoshikai, Shunichi ^a   Yuhi, Fumiaki ^a   Nagata, Shinji ^a  

^a ASO IIZUKA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Agenesis; Dolichoectasia; Internal carotid artery; Saccular aneurysm

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGENESIS; ANEURYSM CLIP; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ARTERY DYSPLASIA; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOLICHOECTATIC INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY AGENESIS; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY ANEURYSM; NAUSEA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; SACCULAR ANEURYSM; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; ANEURYSM, RUPTURED; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 1042278791     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.44.20     Document Type: Article

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