A proposed parent vessel geometry-based categorization of saccular intracranial aneurysms: Computational flow dynamics analysis of the risk factors for lesion rupture

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 662-680

  Hassan, Tamer ^a   Timofeev, Eugene V ^c   Saito, Tsutomu ^c   Shimizu, Hiroaki ^c   Ezura, Masayuki ^c   Matsumoto, Yasushi ^c   Takayama, Kazuyoshi ^c   Tominaga, Teiji ^c   Takahashi, Akira ^b  

^a ALEXANDRIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Aneurysm; Bleb; Classification system; Computational flow dynamic; Wall shear stress

Indexed keywords

ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; COMPUTATIONAL FLOW DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FLOW MEASUREMENT; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SHEAR STRESS;

EID: 32044464098     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 00223085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.2005.103.4.0662     Document Type: Article

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