Endovascular treatment of vein of Galen aneurysmal malformation: Management strategy and 21-year experience in Toronto - Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 3-10

  Li, Ai Hsien ^a   Armstrong, Derek ^b   TerBrugge, Karel G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Congestive heart failure; Developmental delay; Embolization; Endovascular treatment; Hydrocephalus; Vein of Galen aneurysmal malformation

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRAIN VENTRICLE DILATATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DISEASE COURSE; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; MALE; NEWBORN; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN OF GALEN MALFORMATION; WORK EXPERIENCE;

CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ONTARIO; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; VEIN OF GALEN MALFORMATIONS;

EID: 79251580984     PISSN: 19330707     EISSN: 19330715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2010.9.PEDS0956     Document Type: Article

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