Endovascular management of intracranial aneurysms: Current experience and future advances

Neurosurgery

Volumn 59, Issue 5 SUPPL., 2006, Pages

  Koebbe, Christopher J ^a,b   Veznedaroglu, Erol ^a   Jabbour, Pascal ^a   Rosenwasser, Robert H ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aneurysm; Endovascular; Subarachnoid hemorrhage

Indexed keywords

ABCIXIMAB; ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; DEXTRAN; FIBRINOGEN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; HEPARIN; MAGNESIUM; NICARDIPINE; NIMODIPINE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; UROKINASE; VERAPAMIL;

ANALYSIS; ANEURYSM; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANGIOPLASTY; CIRCULATION; COIL EMBOLIZATION; DEATH; DISABILITY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STENT; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; VASOSPASM;

EID: 33750356051     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000237512.10529.58     Document Type: Review

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