Association between an aplastic basilar artery, unaccompanied by a primitive carotid-vertebrobasilar anastomosis, and multiple aneurysms on the dominant posterior communicating artery: Case report

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 946-949

  Behari, Sanjay ^a   Krishna, Himanshu ^a   Kumar, Marakani V Kiran ^a   Sawlani, Vijay ^a   Phadke, Rajendra V ^a   Jain, Vijendra K ^a  

^a SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Aneurysm; Basilar artery; Subarachnoid hemorrhage

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; NIMODIPINE; PHENYTOIN;

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS; APLASIA; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BASILAR ARTERY APLASIA; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN STEM; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID VERTEBROBASILAR ANASTOMOSIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HEMIPARESIS; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MALE; MENINX DISORDER; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; POSTERIOR COMMUNICATING ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SURGICAL APPROACH; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 2042432835     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.2004.100.5.0946     Document Type: Article

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