Successful treatment of a ruptured dissecting basilar artery aneurysm: Case report

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1072-1075

  Kai, Yutaka ^a   Hamada, Jun Ichiro ^a   Morioka, Motohiro ^a   Yano, Shigetoshi ^a   Hamasaki, Kiyotoshi ^a   Ushio, Yukitaka ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anastomosis; Basilar artery; Dissecting aneurysm; Radial artery graft

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANEURYSM CLIP; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ANTERIOR INFERIOR CEREBELLAR ARTERY; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN ARTERY; CASE REPORT; DISSECTING ANEURYSM; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; FLOW REVERSAL; HUMAN; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; POSTERIOR INFERIOR CEREBELLAR ARTERY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL ARTERY; RECURRENT DISEASE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 2442655312     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.2004.100.6.1072     Document Type: Article

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