Clinical outcome of standard extracranial-intracranial bypass surgery in patients with symptomatic atherosclerotic occlusion of the internal carotid artery

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 146, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 95-101

  Mendelowitsch, A ^a   Taussky, P ^a   Rem, J A ^a   Gratzl, O ^a   Schmiedek, P ^b  

^a Neurologische Universitatsklinik Basel   (Switzerland)

^b Kantonsspital ^*

Author keywords

Carotid occlusion; Cerebral revascularization; Extracranial intracranial bypass; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRAIN FUNCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; EXTRAINTRACRANIAL ANASTOMOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT PATENCY; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK REDUCTION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CEREBRAL REVASCULARIZATION; FEMALE; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 1542291019     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-003-0154-7     Document Type: Article

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