Endovascular treatment of a vertebral artery pseudoaneurysm in a drug user

CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 662-664

  Mourikis, Dimitrios ^a   Chatziioannou, Achilleas ^a   Doriforou, Ortansia ^a   Skiadas, Vasilios ^a,b   Koutoulidis, Vasilios ^a   Katsenis, Konstantinos ^a   Vlahos, Lampros ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Drug abuser; Pseudoaneurysm; Stent graft; Traumatic; Vertebral artery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DRUG USE; FALSE ANEURYSM; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; JUGULAR VEIN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; STENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

ADULT; ANEURYSM, FALSE; HUMANS; MALE; STENTS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 33744758371     PISSN: 01741551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00270-005-0105-1     Document Type: Article

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