Far lateral suboccipital approach for the treatment of proximal posteroinferior cerebellar artery aneurysms: Surgical results and long-term outcome

Neurosurgery

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 39-50

  D'Ambrosio, Anthony L ^a   Kreiter, Kurt T ^a   Bush, Curtis A ^a   Sciacca, Robert R ^a   Mayer, Stephan A ^a   Solomon, Robert A ^a   Connolly Jr , E Sander ^a  

^a New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Aneurysm; Far lateral suboccipital approach; Outcome; Posteroinferior cerebellar artery; Subarachnoid hemorrhage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANEURYSM CLIP; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FAR LATERAL SUBOCCIPITAL APPROACH; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; MALE; MORBIDITY; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTERIOR COMMUNICATING ARTERY; POSTERIOR COMMUNICATING ARTERY ANEURYSM; POSTERIOR INFERIOR CEREBELLAR ARTERY; POSTERIOR INFERIOR CEREBELLAR ARTERY ANEURYSM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SURGICAL APPROACH; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIES; CEREBELLUM; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCIPITAL BONE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 3042743701     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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