Acute basilar artery dissection treated by emergency stenting in a 13-year-old boy

Pediatric Neurosurgery

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 318-322

  Komiyama, Masaki ^a   Yoshimura, Masaki ^a   Honnda, Yuji ^a   Matsusaka, Yasuhiro ^a   Yasui, Toshihiro ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Basilar artery dissection; Brain stem; Cerebral infarction; Stenting

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY STENT; DISEASE COURSE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; BASILAR ARTERY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; STENTS;

EID: 27744571614     PISSN: 10162291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000088734     Document Type: Article

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