Agenesis of the internal carotid artery with transcavernous anastomosis presenting with an anterior communicating artery aneurysm-A case report and review of the literature

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 622-626

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

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Agenesis; Aneurysm; Internal carotid artery; Transcavernous anastomosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANEURYSM; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ANTERIOR COMMUNICATING ARTERY ANEURYSM; ARTERY CLAMP; ARTERY MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY ANOMALY; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY AGENESIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEURORADIOLOGY; PERIODIC MEDICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; TRANSCAVERNOUS ANASTOMOSIS;

ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 44449167474     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2008.03.004     Document Type: Article

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