Bypass grafting and revascularization in the management of posterior circulation aneurysms

Neurosurgery

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1036-1048

  Evans, James J ^a   Sekhar, Laligam N ^b   Rak, Ramin ^b   Stimac, Dinko ^c  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c JOSIP JURAJ STROSSMAYER UNIVERSITY OF OSIJEK   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Bypass techniques; Cerebral revascularization; Cranial base approaches; Patient outcome; Posterior circulation aneurysms

Indexed keywords

ANGIOPLASTY; ARTERY BYPASS; ARTERY SPASM; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BYPASS SURGERY; GRAFT PATENCY; HUMAN; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; POSTERIOR CIRCULATION ANEURYSM; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIAL ARTERY; REOPERATION; REVASCULARIZATION; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; CAROTID ARTERIES; CEREBELLAR CORTEX; CEREBRAL REVASCULARIZATION; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCIPITAL LOBE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 8744283705     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000140822.64362.C6     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Ali MJ, Bendok BR, Tella MN, Chandler JP, Getch CC, Batjer HH: Arterial reconstruction by surgical clipping of a basilar artery dissecting aneurysm after failed vertebral artery occlusion: Technical case report and literature review. Neurosurgery 52:1475-1481, 2003.
2. Coiteiro DN, Oertel M, Martin NA: Revascularization of posterior cerebral circulation, in Techniques in Neurosurgery. 2000, vol 6, pp 113-126.
3. Drake CG, Peerless SJ: Giant fusiform intracranial aneurysms: Review of 120 patients treated surgically from 1965 to 1992. J Neurosurg 87:141-162, 1997.
4. Harsh GR IV, Sekhar LN: The subtemporal, transcavernous, anterior petrosal approach to the upper brain stem and clivus. J Neurosurg 77:709-717, 1992.
5. Javedan SP, Desmukh VR, Spetzler RF, Zabramski JM: The role of cerebral revascularization in patients with intracranial aneurysms. Neurosurg Clin N Am 12:541-555, 2001.
6. Lawton MT, Daspit CP, Spetzler RF: Technical aspects and recent trends in the management of large and giant midbasilar artery aneurysms. Neurosurgery 41:513-521, 1997.
7. Salas E, Sekhar LN, Ziyal IM, Caputy AJ, Wright DC: Variations of the extreme-lateral craniocervical approach: Anatomical study and clinical analysis of 69 patients. J Neurosurg 90:206-219, 1999.
8. Sekhar LN, Estonillo R: Transtemporal approach to the skull base: An anatomical study. Neurosurgery 19:799-808, 1986.
9. Deleted in proof.
10. Sekhar LN, Kalavakonda C: Saphenous vein and radial artery grafts in the management of skull base tumors and aneurysms. Oper Tech Neurosurg 2:129-141, 1999.
11. Sekhar LN, Kalavakonda C: Cerebral revascularization for aneurysms and tumors. Neurosurgery 50:321-331, 2002.
12. Sekhar LN, Bucur SD, Bank WO, Wright DC: Venous and arterial bypass grafts for difficult tumors, aneurysms, and occlusive vascular lesions: Evolution of operative management and improved results. Neurosurgery 44: 1207-1224, 1999.
13. Sekhar LN, Duff MJ, Kalavakonda C, Olding M: Cerebral revascularization using radial grafts for the treatment of complex intracranial aneurysms: Techniques and outcomes for 17 patients. Neurosurgery 49:646-659, 2001.
14. Sekhar LN, Kalia KK, Yonas H, Wright DC, Ching H: Cranial base approaches to intracranial aneurysms in the subarachnoid space. Neurosurgery 35:472-481, 1994.
15. Sekhar LN, Raso JL, Schessel DA: The presigmoid petrosal approach, in Sekhar LN, de Oliveira EP (eds): Cranial Microneurosurgery Approaches and Techniques. New York, Thieme, 1999, pp 432-463.
16. Sekhar LN, Schessel DA, Bucur SD, Raso JL, Wright DC: Partial labyrinthectomy petrous apicectomy approach to neoplastic and vascular lesions of the petroclival area. Neurosurgery 44:537-550, 1999.
17. Taylor CL, Kopitnik TA, Samson DS, Purdy PD: Treatment and outcome in 30 patients with posterior cerebral artery aneurysms. J Neurosurg 99:15-22, 2003.