Endovascular treatment of posterior circulation fusiform aneurysms: Single-center experience in 31 patients

Neurosurgery

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 274-283

  Raphaeli, Guy ^a   Collignon, Laurent ^a   Witte, Olivier De ^a   Lubicz, Boris ^a  

^a ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cerebral posterior circulation; Dissecting aneurysms; Endovascular treatment; Intracranial fusiform aneurysms; Stent

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM SURGERY; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; ENDOVASCULAR TREATMENT; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARENT ARTERY OCCLUSION; POSTERIOR CIRCULATION FUSIFORM ANEURYSM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; STENT; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL ARTERIAL DISEASES; ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960353144     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e31821723f2     Document Type: Review

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