Monitoring of the lateral spread response in the endovascular treatment of a hemifacial spasm caused by an unruptured vertebral artery aneurysm: Case report

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 101, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 861-863

  Murakami, Hiroatsu ^a   Kawaguchi, Tadashi ^a   Fukuda, Masafumi ^a   Ito, Yasushi ^a   Hasegawa, Hitoshi ^a   Tanaka, Ryuichi ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Endovascular therapy; Hemifacial spasm; Lateral spread response; Unruptured aneurysm; Vertebral artery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; HEMIFACIAL SPASM; HUMAN; MONITORING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SACCULAR ANEURYSM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRAL ARTERIOGRAPHY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 7244238049     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.2004.101.5.0861     Document Type: Article

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