Microneurosurgical management of internal carotid artery bifurcation aneurysms

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 649-667

  Lehecka, Martin ^a   Dashti, Reza ^a   Romani, Rossana ^a   Çelik, Özgür ^a   Navratil, Ondrej ^a   Kivipelto, Leena ^a   Kivisaari, Riku ^a   Shen, Hu ^a   Ishii, Keisuke ^a   Karatas, Ayse ^a   Lehto, Hanna ^a   Kokuzawa, Jouji ^a   Niemelä, Mika ^a   Rinne, Jaakko ^b   Ronkainen, Antti ^b   Koivisto, Timo ^b   Jääskelainen, Juha E ^b   Hernesniemi, Juha ^a  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Aneurysm; Bifurcation; Clipping; Internal carotid artery; Microanatomy; Microsurgical technique; Perforators; Subarachnoid hemorrhage

Indexed keywords

ANEURYSM CLIP; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERY; BRAIN HEMATOMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN VEIN; CAROTID ARTERY BIFURCATION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; CHOROID VASCULARIZATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; DATA BASE; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISSECTION; FINLAND; HEAD POSITION; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY ANEURYSM; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEUROSURGERY; OPHTHALMIC ARTERY; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTERIOR COMMUNICATING ARTERY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL PATIENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ANEURYSM; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CRANIOTOMY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; MICROSURGERY;

EID: 67349283044     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surneu.2009.01.028     Document Type: Article

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