Bypass surgery for complex brain aneurysms: An assessment of intracranial-intracranial bypass

Neurosurgery

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 670-683

  Sanai, Nader ^a   Zador, Zsolt ^a   Lawton, Michael T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aneurysm; Clipping; Extracranial to intracranial bypass; In situ bypass; Intracranial to intracranial bypass; Reanastomosis; Reimplantation; Revascularization

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BYPASS SURGERY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; EFFERENT NERVE; EXTRAINTRACRANIAL ANASTOMOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; INTRACRANIAL INTRACRANIAL BYPASS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; ORGAN DONOR; POSTERIOR INFERIOR CEREBELLAR ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REIMPLANTATION; REVASCULARIZATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SKULL; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL, DISSECTION; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBRAL REVASCULARIZATION; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TEMPORAL ARTERIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRAL ARTERY DISSECTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349730277     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000348557.11968.F1     Document Type: Article

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