Cerebral revascularization for ischemia, aneurysms, and cranial base tumors

Neurosurgery

Volumn 62, Issue 6 SUPPL., 2008, Pages

  Sekhar, Laligam N ^a,c   Natarajan, Sabareesh K ^a   Ellenbogen, Richard G ^a   Ghodke, Basavaraj ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral revascularization; Complex intracranial; Ischemia; Moyamoya; Superficial temporal artery middle cerebral artery anastomosis

Indexed keywords

ANASTOMOSIS; ANESTHESIA; ANEURYSM; ANEURYSM CLIP; ANTERIOR COMMUNICATING ARTERY; ARTERIOTOMY; ARTERY RECONSTRUCTION; BLOOD CLOTTING; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BYPASS SURGERY; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CEREBRAL REVASCULARIZATION; CHONDROSARCOMA; COMPOSITE GRAFT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIAL BASE TUMOR; DISEASE COURSE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ELANA TECHNIQUE; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT OCCLUSION; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INSTRUMENTATION; LIQUORRHEA; MEMORY DISORDER; MENINGIOMA; MOYAMOYA DISEASE; NERVE PARALYSIS; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTERIOR COMMUNICATING ARTERY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTOSIS; RADIAL ARTERY; REVASCULARIZATION; REVIEW; ROBOTICS; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STEREOTACTIC PROCEDURE; STROKE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT INDICATION; TUMOR; BRAIN TUMOR; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; METHODOLOGY; SKULL BASE;

BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CEREBRAL REVASCULARIZATION; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; SKULL BASE;

EID: 53049097902     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000315873.41953.74     Document Type: Review

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