Surgical treatment of a dural arteriovenous fistula in the superior petrosal sinus of an elderly patient with minimal suboccipital craniotomy - Case report

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 465-467

  Kimura, Toshikazu ^a   Shojima, Masaaki ^b   Koizumi, Tomoyuki ^a   Fukaya, Syunsuke ^a   Ichikawa, Yasumitsu ^a   Morita, Akio ^a  

^a Kanto Teishin Hospital   (Japan)

^b JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arteriovenous fistula; Elderly; Minimally invasive surgery; Superior petrosal sinus; Surgery

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM INFARCTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRANIOTOMY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DURA MATER; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NEUROIMAGING; SUPERIOR PETROSAL SINUS; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREMOR;

AGE FACTORS; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAROTID ARTERY, EXTERNAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM VASCULAR MALFORMATIONS; CEREBELLAR DISEASES; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL VEINS; CRANIAL SINUSES; CRANIOTOMY; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; OCCIPITAL BONE; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 70549111607     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.49.465     Document Type: Article

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