Symptomatic occlusion at the origin of the vertebral artery treated using external carotid artery-cervical vertebral artery bypass with interposed saphenous vein graft

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 164-168

  Kakino, Shunsuke ^a   Ogasawara, Kuniaki ^a   Kubo, Yoshitaka ^a   Kobayashi, Masakazu ^a   Kashimura, Hiroshi ^a   Ogawa, Akira ^a  

^a IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Saphenous vein graft; Vascular reconstruction; Vertebral artery occlusion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTERY BYPASS; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT PATENCY; HUMAN; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRAL ARTERY STENOSIS;

AGED; CAROTID ARTERY, EXTERNAL; CEREBRAL REVASCULARIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SAPHENOUS VEIN; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 38749101665     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surneu.2007.07.073     Document Type: Article

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