Successful "blind-alley" formation with bypass surgery for a partially thrombosed giant basilar artery tip aneurysm refractory to upper basilar artery obliteration: Case report

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 484-487

  Takahashi, Jun C ^a   Murao, Kenichi ^a   Iihara, Koji ^a   Nonaka, Yuko ^a   Taki, Junya ^a   Nagata, Izumi ^a   Miyamoto, Susumu ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Basilar artery tip aneurysm; Bypass surgery; Clip application

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID;

ADULT; ANEURYSM; ANEURYSM CLIP; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BASILAR ARTERY TIP ANEURYSM; BRAIN STEM; BYPASS SURGERY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERFICIAL TEMPORAL ARTERY; THALAMUS; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

ADULT; CEREBRAL REVASCULARIZATION; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; INTRACRANIAL THROMBOSIS; MALE;

EID: 33847635306     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 00223085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.2007.106.3.484     Document Type: Article

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