Endovascular Treatment of Intracranial Arteriovenous Malformation

Neurosurgery Clinics of North America

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 399-418

  Strozyk, Dorothea ^a   Nogueira, Raul G ^b   Lavine, Sean D ^a  

^a New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Arteriovenous malformation; Embolization; Endovascular treatment; Intracranial hemorrhage; NBCA; Onyx

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CYANOACRYLATE; ENBUCRILATE; HEPARIN; LABETALOL; NICARDIPINE; ONYX COPOLYMER; POLYVINYL ALCOHOL;

BLOOD VESSEL RUPTURE; BRAIN ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRAIN EMBOLISM; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN VASOSPASM; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COIL EMBOLIZATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIAL NERVE INJURY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTENSIVE CARE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MICROSURGERY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE THROMBOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION NECROSIS; RADIOSURGERY; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SEIZURE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CYANOACRYLATES; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; POLYMERS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RADIOSURGERY; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 70350109363     PISSN: 10423680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nec.2009.07.004     Document Type: Review

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