Extracranial vertebral artery aneurysm ruptured into the thoracic cavity with neurofibromatosis type 1: Case report

Neurosurgery

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1517-1521

  Miyazaki, Takeshi ^a,b   Ohta, Fumihito ^a,c   Daisu, Mitsuhiro ^a   Hoshii, Yoshinobu ^d   Lawton, Michael T ^e   Hongo, Kazuhiro ^e   Barrow, Daniel L ^e   Day, Arthur L ^e   Vates, G Edward ^e  

^a Masuda Red Cross Hospital   (Japan)

^b SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Department of Neurosurgery   (Japan)

^d YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Aneurysm; Extracranial; Neurofibromatosis Type 1; Rupture; Thoracic cavity; Vertebral artery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BALLOON CATHETER; CASE REPORT; COMA; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRIP STRENGTH; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; NEURORADIOLOGY; PARESTHESIA; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE DISEASE; SHOCK; THORACIC CAVITY; VASCULAR FRAGILITY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 2542628268     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000125547.31328.69     Document Type: Article

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