Bypass and flow reduction for complex basilar and vertebrobasilar junction aneurysms

Neurosurgery

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 763-775

  Kalani, M Yashar S ^a   Zabramski, Joseph M ^a   Nakaji, Peter ^a   Spetzler, Robert F ^a  

^a BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aneurysm; Basilar artery; Complex; Extracranial intracranial; Flow reduction; Giant; Vertebral artery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM CLIP; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; EXTRAINTRACRANIAL ANASTOMOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; POSTERIOR INFERIOR CEREBELLAR ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANKIN SCALE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRAL ARTERY STENOSIS; VERTEBROBASILAR ANEURYSM;

ADULT; AGED; BASILAR ARTERY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; CEREBRAL REVASCULARIZATION; ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 84876739261     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e3182870703     Document Type: Article

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