Successful obliteration and shrinkage of giant partially thrombosed basilar artery aneurysms through a tailored flow reduction strategy with bypass surgery: Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1028-1036

  Miyamoto, Susumu ^a   Funaki, Takeshi ^b   Iihara, Koji ^b   Takahashi, Jun C ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Basilar artery; Cerebral revascularization; Extracranial intracranial arterial bypass; Giant intracranial aneurysm

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM; ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BYPASS SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FLOW REDUCTION TREATMENT; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERAPY EFFECT;

ADULT; AGED; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL REVASCULARIZATION; CORONARY CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; INTRACRANIAL THROMBOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR GRAFTING;

EID: 79953676901     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2010.9.JNS10448     Document Type: Article

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