Treatment of a partially thrombosed giant aneurysm of the vertebral artery by aneurysm trapping and direct vertebral artery-posterior inferior cerebellar artery end-to-end anastomosis: Technical case report

Neurosurgery

Volumn 59, Issue 1 SUPPL. 1, 2006, Pages

  Benes, Ludwig ^a,b   Kappus, Christoph ^a   Sure, Ulrich ^a   Bertalanffy, Helmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MARBURG   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aneurysm; End to end anastomosis; Posterior inferior cerebellar artery; Vertebral artery

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

AGED; ANEURYSM; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CASE REPORT; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; FEMALE; HEPARINIZATION; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTERIOR INFERIOR CEREBELLAR ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURING METHOD; THROMBOSIS; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY ANEURYSM;

AGED; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL ARTERIAL DISEASES; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; CRANIAL NERVES; CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; OCCIPITAL BONE; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 33745767123     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000220034.08995.37     Document Type: Article

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