Intracranial aneurysms: From vessel wall pathology to therapeutic approach

Nature Reviews Neurology

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 547-559

  Krings, Timo ^a   Mandell, Daniel M ^a   Kiehl, Tim Rasmus ^b   Geibprasert, Sasikhan ^a   Tymianski, Michael ^a   Alvarez, Hortensia ^c   TerBrugge, Karel G ^a   Hans, Franz Josef ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT;

ADVENTITIA; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANEURYSM CLIP; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTERY MEDIA; ASTROCYTE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISSECTING ANEURYSM; ENDOTHELIUM; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HEMODYNAMICS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HIV ASSOCIATED ANEURYSM; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; INTRAMURAL HEMORRHAGE; MORPHOLOGY; MYCOTIC ANEURYSM; NEOPLASTIC ANEURYSM; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMORPHONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SACCULAR ANEURYSM; SEGMENTAL ECTASIA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHEAR STRESS; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRAUMATIC ANEURYSM;

BLOOD VESSELS; ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 80555122944     PISSN: 17594758     EISSN: 17594766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneurol.2011.136     Document Type: Review

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