Revascularization surgery for asymptomatic adult moyamoya disease presenting silent disease progression: Report of two cases

Neurological Surgery

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 825-830

  Kawai, Kagari ^a   Kuroda, Satoshi ^a   Kawabori, Masahito ^a   Nakayama, Naoki ^a   Terasaka, Shunsuke ^a   Iwasaki, Yoshinobu ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asymptomatic moyamoya disease; Cerebral hemodynamics; Disease progression; Surgical revascularization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBRAL REVASCULARIZATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MOYAMOYA DISEASE; NEUROIMAGING; SUPERFICIAL TEMPORAL ARTERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL REVASCULARIZATION; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOYAMOYA DISEASE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77956931331     PISSN: 03012603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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