Influence of intracranial aneurysm-to-parent vessel size ratio on hemodynamics and implication for rupture: Results from a virtual experimental study

Neurosurgery

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 622-630

  Tremmel, Markus ^a,c   Dhar, Sujan ^b,c   Levy, Elad I ^c   Mocco, J ^a,c   Meng, Hui ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b State University of New York ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Intracranial aneurysm; Morphology; Parent vessel diameter; Rupture risk; Size ratio

Indexed keywords

ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER MODEL; DISEASE COURSE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE FLOW; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SHEAR STRESS; VEIN DIAMETER; VEIN WALL;

ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSELS; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PULSATILE FLOW; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RUPTURE; STRESS, MECHANICAL; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 67649849824     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000341529.11231.69     Document Type: Article

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