Re- and deconstruction: Staged treatment of large fusiform aneurysms of the vertebrobasilar junction by stent deployment and subsequent coil occlusion of one vertebral artery

Clinical Neuroradiology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 255-260

  Liebig, Thomas ^a   Henkes, Hans ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b KATHARINENHOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOSALICYLIC ACID; CLOPIDOGREL;

AGED; ANEURYSM; BRAIN STEM; CASE REPORT; COIL EMBOLIZATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVENTIONAL ANGIOGRAPHY; DIPLOPIA; DYSPHAGIA; FEMALE; GUIDE WIRE; HUMAN; IMAGING; LETTER; LOADING DRUG DOSE; STENT; SYMPTOM; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 56549108470     PISSN: 09397116     EISSN: 16156706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00062-008-8033-5     Document Type: Letter

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