Clinical outcomes of ruptured and unruptured vertebral artery-posterior inferior cerebellar artery complex dissecting aneurysms after endovascular embolization

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1232-1235

  Lv, X ^a   Jiang, C ^a   Li, Y ^a   Wu, Zhongxue ^a  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CLOPIDOGREL;

ABDUCENS NERVE PARALYSIS; ADL DISABILITY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM RUPTURE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN STEM; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COIL EMBOLIZATION; DISSECTING ANEURYSM; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTERIOR INFERIOR CEREBELLAR ARTERY; SCHOOL CHILD; STENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANEURYSM, RUPTURED; CHILD; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRAL ARTERY DISSECTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955643119     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: 1936959X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A2087     Document Type: Article

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