Diagnosis and treatment of vein of Galen aneurysmal malformations

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 879-887

  Heuer, Gregory G ^a,b   Gabel, Brandon ^a   Beslow, Lauren A ^b   Stiefel, Michael F ^a   Schwartz, Erin S ^b   Storm, Phillip B ^a,b   Ichord, Rebecca N ^b   Hurst, Robert W ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Endovascular; Heart failure; In utero; Neonates; Vein of Galen aneurysmal malformations

Indexed keywords

ENBUCRILATE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BRAIN VENTRICLE DILATATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COIL EMBOLIZATION; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HEART DILATATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HERPES SIMPLEX ENCEPHALITIS; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEUKOMALACIA; MACROCEPHALY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NEURORADIOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; VEIN OF GALEN MALFORMATION;

ADULT; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HERPES SIMPLEX; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; VEIN OF GALEN MALFORMATIONS;

EID: 77956189841     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-009-1063-8     Document Type: Article

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