Posterior inferior cerebellar artery aneurysms: Incidence, clinical presentation, and outcome of endovascular treatment

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 86-90

  Peluso, J P ^a   Van Rooij, Willem Jan ^a   Sluzewski, M ^a   Beute, G N ^a   Majoie, C B ^b  

^a Microvida Laboratory for Medical Microbiology and Immunology   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ARTICLE; BALLOON OCCLUSION; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRAIN INFARCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COIL EMBOLIZATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; DISABILITY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MORBIDITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTERIOR INFERIOR CEREBELLAR ARTERY; STENT; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; VERTEBRAL ARTERIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBELLUM; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 38349062292     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A0758     Document Type: Article

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