Surgical management of giant posterior communicating artery aneurysms

Neurosurgery

Volumn 71, Issue SUPPL.1, 2012, Pages

  Velat, Gregory J ^a   Zabramski, Joseph M ^a   Nakaji, Peter ^a   Spetzler, Robert F ^a  

^a BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aneurysm; Clipping; Giant; Posterior communicating artery; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM RUPTURE; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; EXTRAINTRACRANIAL ANASTOMOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEADACHE; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MENTAL DISEASE; MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PNEUMONIA; POSTERIOR COMMUNICATING ARTERY ANEURYSM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANKIN SCALE; SEIZURE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; VISUAL DISORDER; GIANT POSTERIOR COMMUNICATING ARTERY ANEURYSM; NEUROSURGERY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84876129988     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e31824c05a0     Document Type: Article

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