Giant thrombosed fusiform aneurysm at the basilar trunk successfully treated with endovascular coil occlusion following bypass surgery: A case report and review of the literature

Neurological Research

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 842-846

  Horie, Nobutaka ^a   Kitagawa, Naoki ^a   Morikawa, Minoru ^a   Kawakubo, Junichi ^a   Tsutsumi, Keisuke ^a   Kaminogo, Makio ^a   Nagata, Izumi ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Balloon test occlusion; Basilar trunk; Bypass; Giant fusiform aneurysm

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANEURYSM; ARTICLE; BYPASS SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COIL EMBOLIZATION; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; DIPLOPIA; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; THROMBOSIS; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

BALLOON OCCLUSION; BASILAR ARTERY; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 37149026348     PISSN: 01616412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/016164107X217392     Document Type: Article

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