The use of a covered stent graft for obliteration of high-flow carotid cavernous fistula presenting with life-threatening epistaxis

Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 142-145

  Kalia, J S ^a   Niu, T ^a   Zaidat, O O ^a  

^a FROEDTERT MEMORIAL LUTHERAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CANCER SURGERY; CAROTID ARTERIOGRAPHY; CAROTID CAVERNOUS FISTULA; CASE REPORT; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; EPISTAXIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; SURGICAL APPROACH; TRANSSPHENOIDAL ADENECTOMY; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADENOMA; CAROTID ARTERY INJURIES; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CAROTID-CAVERNOUS SINUS FISTULA; COATED MATERIALS, BIOCOMPATIBLE; EPISTAXIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; SPHENOID BONE; STENTS;

EID: 79960513241     PISSN: 17598478     EISSN: 17598486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnis.2009.001040     Document Type: Article

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