Morphological differences between ruptured and unruptured cases in middle cerebral artery aneurysms

Neurosurgery

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 602-608

  Sadatomo, Takashi ^a   Yuki, Kiyoshi ^a   Migita, Keisuke ^a   Taniguchi, Eiji ^a   Kodama, Yasunori ^a   Kurisu, Kaoru ^b  

^a National Hospital Organization Higashihiroshima Medical Center   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aneurysmal neck; Middle cerebral artery aneurysm; Rupture; Three dimensional digital subtraction angiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM RUPTURE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM, RUPTURED; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 42449109990     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000311347.35583.0C     Document Type: Article

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