Successful endovascular treatment of a ruptured mycotic intracavernous carotid artery aneurysm in an AIDS patient

Neurocritical Care

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 156-159

  Wang, Huan ^a   Rammos, Stylianos ^a   Fraser, Kenneth ^a   Elwood, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

AIDS; Aneurysm; Aspergillus; Endovascular; Epistaxis; Mycotic

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; BALLOON OCCLUSION; BLOOD CULTURE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CAROTID ARTERY ANEURYSM; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEATH; EPISTAXIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ANEURYSM, INFECTED; ANEURYSM, RUPTURED; BALLOON OCCLUSION; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 36949003700     PISSN: 15416933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12028-007-0072-2     Document Type: Article

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