Different modalities of treatment of intracranial mycotic aneurysms: report of 4 cases

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 405-409

  Nakahara, Ichiro ^a   Taha, Mahmoud M ^b   Higashi, Toshio ^a   Iwamuro, Yasushi ^a   Iwaasa, Mitsutoshi ^a   Watanabe, Yoshihiko ^a   Tsunetoshi, Kenzo ^a   Munemitsu, Toshihiro ^a  

^a KOKURA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b ZAGAZIG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Egypt)

Author keywords

GDC; Infective endocarditis; Mycotic aneurysms; Surgical trapping

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CASE REPORT; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; MYCOTIC ANEURYSM; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; BRAIN; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL, INTRACRANIAL; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 33749041684     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surneu.2006.01.021     Document Type: Article

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