Endovascular management of a ruptured cavernous carotid artery aneurysm associated with a carotid cavernous fistula with an intracranial self-expanding microstent and hydrogel-coated coil embolization: case report and review of the literature

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 562-567

  Eddleman, Christopher S ^a   Surdell, Daniel ^a   Miller, Jeffrey ^a   Shaibani, Ali ^a   Bendok, Bernard R ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carotid cavernous fistula; Cavernous carotid aneurysm; Endovascular; Hydrocoil; Neuroform stent

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY ANEURYSM; CAROTID CAVERNOUS FISTULA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COIL EMBOLIZATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROGEL; STENT; VISUAL ACUITY;

ANEURYSM, RUPTURED; ANGIOPLASTY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CAROTID-CAVERNOUS SINUS FISTULA; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROGEL; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; STENTS;

EID: 35349017348     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surneu.2006.10.074     Document Type: Article

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