Life-threatening bleeding from a vertebral artery pseudoaneurysm after anterior cervical spine approach: Endovascular repair by a triple stent-in-stent method. Case report

Neuroradiology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 282-286

  Garcia Alzamora, Meritxell ^a   Rosahl, Steffen K ^a   Lehmberg, Jens ^a   Klisch, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Angiography; Anterior cervical approach; Cervical disk disease; Pseudoaneurysm; Surgical injury to the cervical vertebral artery; Vessel preservation by endovascular triple stent placement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BALLOON OCCLUSION; BLEEDING; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MYELOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD HEMORRHAGE; SPINE TUMOR; STENT; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VASCULAR PATENCY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

ANEURYSM, FALSE; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DISKECTOMY; FEMALE; HEMOSTASIS, ENDOSCOPIC; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; STENTS; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 20444442011     PISSN: 00283940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00234-005-1343-2     Document Type: Article

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