Surgical management of ruptured and unruptured symptomatic posterior inferior cerebellar artery aneurysms

British Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 608-612

  Liew, Donald ^a   Ng, Puay Yong ^a   Ng, Ivan ^a,b  

^a National Neuroscience Institute   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Aneurysms; Posterior inferior cerebellar artery; Revascularisation

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTING; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MORBIDITY; POSTERIOR INFERIOR CEREBELLAR ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SACCULAR ANEURYSM; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SURGICAL APPROACH; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM, RUPTURED; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL REVASCULARIZATION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNT;

EID: 11944265974     PISSN: 02688697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02688690400022870     Document Type: Review

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