A successful combined endovascular and surgical treatment of a cranial base mucormycosis with an associated internal carotid artery pseudoaneurysm

Neurosurgery

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 733-740

  Alvernia, Jorge E ^a   Patel, Raj N ^a   Cai, David Z ^a   Dang, Nguyen ^a   Anderson, Dwayne W ^a   Melgar, Miguel ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cranial base; Endovascular; Mucormycosis; Pseudoaneurysm; Skull base; Surgical

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; ATORVASTATIN; CLOTRIMAZOLE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BALLOON CATHETER; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CASE REPORT; CATHETERIZATION; CAUCASIAN; CAVERNOUS SINUS; CAVERNOUS SINUS THROMBOSIS; DEBRIDEMENT; DIPLOPIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FALSE ANEURYSM; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY PSEUDOANEURYSM; MALE; MAXILLARY NERVE; MUCORMYCOSIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMIC NERVE; PARANASAL SINUS; PARANASAL SINUS DISEASE; PARESTHESIA; PETROUS BONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHINCEREBRAL MUCORMYCOSIS; RHINOCEREBRAL MUCORMYCOSIS; SKULL BASE; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; TEMPORAL BONE; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

ADULT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CAROTID ARTERY INJURIES; CAVERNOUS SINUS; CRANIAL FOSSA, MIDDLE; DEBRIDEMENT; HUMANS; HYPERBARIC OXYGENATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MUCORMYCOSIS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PARANASAL SINUS DISEASES; PARANASAL SINUSES; SKULL BASE; TEMPORAL BONE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIGEMINAL NERVE DISEASES; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 70349755949     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000351773.74034.5E     Document Type: Article

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