Treatment of a giant vertebrobasilar artery aneurysm using stent grafts: Case report

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 165-168

  Greenberg, Edward ^a,b   Katz, Jeffrey M ^a   Janardhan, Vallabh ^a   Riina, Howard ^a   Gobin, Y Pierre ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Basilar artery fenestration; Intracranial aneurysm; Stent graft; Subarachnoid hemorrhage; Vertebrobasilar aneurysm

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANEURYSM; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENT; FOLLOW UP; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERTEBROBASILAR ARTERY ANEURYSM;

AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; BALLOON OCCLUSION; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STENTS; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 34347369772     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 00223085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/JNS-07/07/0165     Document Type: Article

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