Construction of a new posterior communicating artery in a patient with poor posterior fossa circulation: Technical case report

Neurosurgery

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 415-419

  Tulleken, Cornelis A F ^a   Streefkerk, Henk Johan N ^a   Van Der Zwan, Albert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cerebral revascularization; ELANA technique; Intracranial bypass; Saphenous vein; Surgical anastomosis; Vertebrobasilar ischemia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERY BYPASS; BRAIN CIRCULATION; CASE REPORT; EXCIMER LASER; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; POSTERIOR COMMUNICATING ARTERY; POSTERIOR FOSSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERTEBRAL ARTERY STENOSIS; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; CEREBRAL REVASCULARIZATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; LASER SURGERY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VASCULARIZATION;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL REVASCULARIZATION; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFARCTION, POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; LASER SURGERY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 20244381924     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-200202000-00036     Document Type: Article

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