Wartime traumatic aneurysms: Acute presentation, diagnosis, and multimodal treatment of 64 craniocervical arterial injuries

Neurosurgery

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 66-79

  Bell, Randy S ^a   Vo, Alexander H ^b   Roberts, Ryan ^a   Wanebo, John ^a   Armonda, Rocco A ^a  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Endovascular occlusion; Pseudoaneurysm; Traumatic intracranial aneurysms; Vascular complications of traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; BRAIN VASOSPASM; CLIP; COIL EMBOLIZATION; DEMOGRAPHY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STENT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TRAUMATIC INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM;

ADULT; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL REVASCULARIZATION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HOSPITALS, MILITARY; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; IRAQ WAR, 2003 -; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAUMA, NERVOUS SYSTEM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77249178191     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000361285.50218.A8     Document Type: Article

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