The role of surgery for high-grade intracranial dural arteriovenous fistulas: Importance of obliteration of venous outflow. Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 110, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 913-920

  Liu, James K ^a,b   Dogan, Aclan ^a   Ellegala, Dilantha B ^a   Carlson, Jonathan ^a   Nesbit, Gary M ^a   Barnwell, Stanley L ^a   Delashaw Jr , Johnny B ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHSHORE UNIVERSITY HEALTHSYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Dural arteriovenous fistula; Leptomeningeal venous drainage; Surgical occlusion; Transvenous embolization; Venous outflow

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; CAROTID ARTERY INJURY; CAVERNOUS SINUS; CEREBELLUM TENTORIUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFLUENCE OF SINUSES; DRAIN; DURAL ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ETHMOID SINUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LEPTOMENINX; LIQUORRHEA; MALE; OCCIPITAL SINUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIGMOID SINUS; SUPERIOR PETROSAL SINUS; SUPERIOR SAGITTAL SINUS; TRANSVERSE SINUS; TROCHLEAR NERVE DISEASE; VEIN BLOOD FLOW; VEIN OCCLUSION; BRAIN VEIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATION; DURA MATER; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGERY; RADIOGRAPHY; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM VASCULAR MALFORMATIONS; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL VEINS; DURA MATER; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 66849102003     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2008.9.JNS08733     Document Type: Article

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