Surgical treatment of high-risk intracranial dural arteriovenous fistulae: Clinical outcomes and avoidance of complications

Neurosurgery

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 447-457

  Kakarla, Udaya K ^a   Deshmukh, Vivek R ^b   Zabramski, Joseph M ^a   Albuquerque, Felipe C ^a   McDougall, Cameron G ^a   Spetzler, Robert F ^a  

^a BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Dural arteriovenous fistula; Endovascular treatment; Surgical results

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL DURAL ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VARICOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM VASCULAR MALFORMATIONS; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 34548823258     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000290889.62201.7F     Document Type: Article

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