Initial experience with the coaxial dual-lumen Ascent balloon catheter for wide-neck aneurysm coil embolization

Frontiers in Neurology

Volumn AUG, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Lazzaro, Marc A ^a   Darkhabani, Ziad ^a   Zaidat, Osama O ^a   Fitzsimmons, Brian Fred M ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Aneurysm embolization; Ascent; Balloon remodeling; Coil

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865798460     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16642295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2011.00052     Document Type: Article

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