Contralateral far-lateral approach for clipping of a ruptured vertebral artery-posterior inferior cerebellar artery aneurysm

Neurosurgical Focus

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Bragg, Taryn McFadden ^a   Duckworth, Edward A M ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral aneurysm; Contralateral approach; Far lateral approach; Posterior inferior cerebellar artery; Subarachnoid hemorrhage; Vertebral artery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

CEREBELLAR DISEASES; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 67650142280     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10920684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/FOC.2008.25.12.E9     Document Type: Article

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