Panacea or problem: Flow diverters in the treatment of symptomatic large or giant fusiform vertebrobasilar aneurysms - Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 116, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1258-1266

  Siddiqui, Adnan H ^a,b,c   Abla, Adib A ^a,c   Kan, Peter ^a,c   Dumont, Travis M ^a,c   Jahshan, Shady ^a,c   Britz, Gavin W ^d   Hopkins, L Nelson ^a,b,c   Levy, Elad I ^a,b,c  

^a Toshiba Stroke Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c Millard Fillmore Gates Circle Hospital   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Flow diversion; Flow reversal; Fusiform vertebrobasilar aneurysm; Interventional neurosurgery; Pipeline device

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CLOPIDOGREL; EPTIFIBATIDE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM INFARCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COIL EMBOLIZATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA BASE; DEATH; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GIANT FUSIFORM VERTEBROBASILAR ANEURYSM; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; MEDICAL DEVICE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT CARE; PIPELINE EMBOLIZATION DEVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANKIN SCALE; SILK FLOW DIVERTING STENT; STENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM, RUPTURED; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; DEVICE APPROVAL; DISABILITY EVALUATION; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 84861974851     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2012.2.JNS111942     Document Type: Article

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