Endovascular treatment of complex aneurysms at the vertebrobasilar junction with flow-diverting stents: Initial experience

Neurosurgery

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 386-394

  Meckel, Stephan ^a   McAuliffe, William ^b   Fiorella, David ^c   Taschner, Christian A ^a   Phatouros, Constantine ^b   Phillips, Timothy John ^b   Vasak, Paul ^d   Schumacher, Martin ^a   Klisch, Joachim ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d HELIOS KLINIKUM ERFURT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Basilar artery; Endovascular procedure; Fusiform aneurysm; Giant aneurysm; Intracranial aneurysm; Stents; Vertebral artery

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CLOPIDOGREL; DEXAMETHASONE; EPTIFIBATIDE; HEPARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTERIAL STENT; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN STEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COIL EMBOLIZATION; COMPRESSION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DYSPHAGIA; FATALITY; FEMALE; FLOW DIVERTING STENT; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; LETHARGY; MALE; POSTERIOR INFERIOR CEREBELLAR ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPLEGIA; RANKIN SCALE; RECANALIZATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STENT THROMBOSIS; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; THROMBOSIS; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; UNILATERAL HEARING LOSS; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84883279181     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.neu.0000431472.71913.07     Document Type: Article

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