Bulbar compression by an ectatic vertebral artery: A novel neurovascular construct relieved by microsurgical decompression

Neurosurgery

Volumn 56, Issue 1 SUPPL., 2005, Pages

  Tomasello, Francesco ^a,b   Alafaci, Concetta ^a   Salpietro, Francesco M ^a   Longo, Marcello ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ectatic vertebral artery; Medulla oblongata; Microvascular decompression; Pyramidal signs

Indexed keywords

POLITEF;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY DYSPLASIA; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BRAINSTEM DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIAL NEUROPATHY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DURA MATER; DYSPHAGIA; DYSPHONIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MICROSURGERY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

AGED; BRAIN STEM; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 13444262111     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000146684.23593.B4     Document Type: Article

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