Basilar artery trunk saccular aneurysms: Morphological characteristics and management

Neurosurgical Review

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 181-191

  Higa, Takashi ^a   Ujiie, Hiroshi ^a   Kato, Koichi ^a   Kamiyama, Hiroyasu ^b   Hori, Tomokatsu ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ASAHIKAWA RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Embolization; Endovascular surgery; Hunterian ligation; Intracranial aneurysm; Subarachnoid hemorrhage; Surgical approach

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY LIGATION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUNTERIAN LIGATION; INCIDENCE; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SACCULAR ANEURYSM; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SURGICAL APPROACH;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM, RUPTURED; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; INTRACRANIAL THROMBOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 61849134782     PISSN: 03445607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10143-008-0163-3     Document Type: Article

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