Cortical blindness during coil embolization of an unruptured intracranial aneurysm - Case report

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 416-419

  Shinoda, Jun ^a   Ajimi, Yasuhiko ^a   Yamada, Motoyuki ^a   Onozuka, Satoshi ^b  

^a SHIZUOKA RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coil embolization; Cortical blindness; Intracranial aneurysm; Occipital lobe

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRAIN MICROCIRCULATION; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN SCINTIANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN TOMOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; CEREBRAL BLINDNESS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COIL EMBOLIZATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; RESTLESSNESS; SACCULAR ANEURYSM; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

BLINDNESS, CORTICAL; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 4544264737     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.44.416     Document Type: Article

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