Return of vision after transarterial coiling of a carotid cavernous sinus fistula: case report

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 82-85

  Das, Sunit ^a   Bendok, Bernard R ^a   Novakovic, Roberta L ^b   Parkinson, Richard J ^a   Rosengart, Axel J ^b   Macdonald, R Loch ^b   Frank, Jeffrey I ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Carotid cavernous fistula; Endovascular; Stenting

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BALLOON OCCLUSION; BLINDNESS; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID CAVERNOUS FISTULA; CASE REPORT; CHEMOSIS; CHOROID DISEASE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COIL EMBOLIZATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONVENTIONAL ANGIOGRAPHY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EXOPHTHALMOS; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR HEMORRHAGE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PATIENT REFERRAL; STENT; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

BLINDNESS; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CAROTID-CAVERNOUS SINUS FISTULA; CAVERNOUS SINUS; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; EYE; HUMANS; HYPOXIA-ISCHEMIA, BRAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; OPHTHALMIC ARTERY; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETINAL DISEASES; RETINAL VEIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 33745224091     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surneu.2005.10.008     Document Type: Article

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