The expanded endonasal approach for an endoscopic transnasal clipping and aneurysmorrhaphy of a large vertebral artery aneurysm: Technical case report

Neurosurgery

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

  Kassam, Amin B ^a,b   Mintz, Arlan H ^a   Gardner, Paul A ^a   Horowitz, Michael B ^a   Carrau, Ricardo L ^a   Snyderman, Carl H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Neurosurgery   (United States)

Author keywords

Aneurysmorrhaphy; Endonasal; Endoscopic neurosurgery; Endovascular coiling; Transsphenoidal; Vertebral artery aneurysm

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANEURYSM; ANEURYSMORRHAPHY; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; BRAIN STEM; CASE REPORT; CLIP; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NEUROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUCTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBUS; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY ANEURYSM;

ATLANTO-OCCIPITAL JOINT; ATLAS; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL ARTERIAL DISEASES; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; CRANIAL SINUSES; CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOGLOSSAL NERVE; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL CAVITY; OCCIPITAL BONE; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 33745797528     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000220047.25001.F8     Document Type: Article

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