Intracranial aneurysms occur more frequently at bifurcation sites that typically experience higher hemodynamic stresses

Neurosurgery

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 497-505

  Alfano, Jaclyn M ^a,b   Kolega, John ^a   Natarajan, Sabareesh K ^a   Xiang, Jianping ^a,b   Paluch, Rocco A ^c   Levy, Elad I ^a   Siddiqui, Adnan H ^a   Meng, Hui ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b the State University of New York   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Aneurysm risk; Cerebral aneurysm; Computational fluid dynamics; Flow; Shear stress

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ANTERIOR COMMUNICATING ARTERY; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN CIRCULUS ARTERIOSUS; CALCULATION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HEMODYNAMIC STRESS; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; META ANALYSIS; MICROENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; POSTERIOR INFERIOR CEREBELLAR ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SHEAR STRESS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CIRCLE OF WILLIS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; HYDRODYNAMICS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 84883281502     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0000000000000016     Document Type: Article

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