Anatomic features of distal anterior cerebral artery aneurysms: A detailed angiographic analysis of 101 patients

Neurosurgery

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 219-228

  Lehecka, Martin ^a   Porras, Matti ^a   Dashti, Reza ^a   Niemelä, Mika ^a   Hernesniemi, Juha A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Angiography; Azygos; Cerebral aneurysm; Distal anterior cerebral artery; Microsurgical anatomy; Pericallosal artery; Radiological findings; Vascular anomalies

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM RUPTURE; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DISTAL ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY ANEURYSM; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSURGERY; NEUROANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT PLANNING; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; HISTOLOGY; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 64849085638     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000310695.44670.32     Document Type: Article

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