Multiple aneurysms of the distal posterior inferior cerebellar artery: Two case reports

Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 249-252

  Demirgil, B ^a   Günaldi, Ö ^a,b   Tugcu, B ^a   Postalci, L ^a   Colluoglu, B ^a   Tanriverdi, O ^a   Asilturk, M ^a  

^a BAKIRKOY DR SADI KONUK TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Aneurysm; Distal posterior inferior cerebellar artery; Multiple aneurysms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CRANIOTOMY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEMATOMA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTERIOR INFERIOR CEREBELLAR ARTERY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; SYMPTOM; VOMITING;

ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; CEREBELLAR DISEASES; CEREBELLUM; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY DISSECTION; VOMITING;

EID: 55549123039     PISSN: 09467211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0028-1082302     Document Type: Article

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