Direct endovascular recanalization of chronic carotid occlusion: Should we do it? Case report

Neurosurgery

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Hauck, Erik F ^a,b   Ogilvy, Christopher S ^a,b,c   Siddiqui, Adnan H ^a,b   Hopkins, L Nelson ^a,b   Levy, Elad I ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b Millard Fillmore Gates Circle Hospital   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Carotid occlusion; Carotid stent; Endovascular; Intracranial stent

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CLOPIDOGREL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN HEMATOMA; CAROTID ARTERY BIFURCATION; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ARTERY STENTING; CASE REPORT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; DYSARTHRIA; ENDOVASCULAR RECANALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; LIMB WEAKNESS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECANALIZATION; SLURRED SPEECH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CEREBRAL REVASCULARIZATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77957999306     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e3181edaf99     Document Type: Article

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