A 7-year experience with balloon-mounted coronary stents for the treatment of symptomatic vertebrobasilar intracranial atheromatous disease

Neurosurgery

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 236-242

  Fiorella, David ^a   Chow, Michael M ^b   Anderson, Michael ^a   Woo, Henry ^a   Rasmussen, Peter A ^a   Masaryk, Thomas J ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Angioplasty; Balloon mounted coronary stent; Intracranial atheromatous disease; Stenting

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY STENT; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANKIN SCALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 34548390193     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000255521.42579.31     Document Type: Review

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