Vertebral artery-posterior inferior cerebellar artery bypass using a radial artery graft for hemorrhagic dissecting vertebral artery aneurysms: Surgical technique and report of 2 cases - Technical note

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1074-1079

  Czabanka, Marcus ^a   Ali, Muhammad ^b   Schmiedek, Peter ^c   Vajkoczy, Peter ^a   Lawton, Michael T ^b  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dissecting vertebral artery aneurysm; Extracranial intracranial bypass; Radial artery graft; Revascularization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRAIN ARTERY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; CEREBRAL REVASCULARIZATION; CLIP; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DISSECTING VERTEBRAL ARTERY ANEURYSM; END TO SIDE ANASTOMOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL ARTERY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; VERTEBRAL ARTERY POSTERIOR INFERIOR CEREBELLAR ARTERY BYPASS;

AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBRAL REVASCULARIZATION; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CRANIOTOMY; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; RADIAL ARTERY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY DISSECTION;

EID: 79953704045     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2010.5.JNS091435     Document Type: Article

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