Successful microsurgical extraction of a migrated coil in a pediatric patient after failed endovascular closure of a Blalock-Taussig shunt: Case report

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 106, Issue 2 SUPPL., 2007, Pages 136-138

  Heuer, Gregory G ^a   Zaghloul, Kareem A ^a   Roberts, Richard ^a   Stiefel, Michael F ^a   Storm, Phillip B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coil migration; Microsurgery; Pediatric neurosurgery; Shunt complication

Indexed keywords

ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FOREIGN BODY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PARESIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PULMONARY ARTERY; RADIOGRAPHY; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOREIGN-BODY MIGRATION; HUMANS; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PARESIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PULMONARY ARTERY; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34347234471     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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