Use of a self-expanding stent with balloon angioplasty in the treatment of dural arteriovenous fistulas involving the transverse and/or sigmoid sinus: Functional and neuroimaging-based outcome in 10 patients

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 254-263

  Levrier, Olivier ^a,b   Métellus, Philippe ^a   Fuentes, Stephane ^a   Manera, Luis ^a   Dufour, Henry ^a   Donnet, Anne ^a   Grisoli, François ^a   Bartoli, Jean Michel ^a   Girard, Nadine ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b TIMONE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Dural arteriovenous fistula; Dural sinus stent placement; Embolization; Intracranial pressure; Sigmoid sinus; Transverse sinus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTICLE; CEREBRAL SINUS THROMBOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CRANIAL SINUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATIENT; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PERMEABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGMOID DURAL SINUS; STENT; SYMPTOM; TRANSVERSE SINUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM VASCULAR MALFORMATIONS; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CRANIAL SINUSES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33644555860     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 00223085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.2006.104.2.254     Document Type: Article

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