World Neurosurgery
Volume 73, Issue 3 , Pages 165-173 , March 2010

Arterial diameters on catheter and computed tomographic angiography

  • Sherise D. Ferguson, MD

      Affiliations

    • Section of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, University of Chicago Medical Center and Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, USA
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  • David S. Rosen, MD

      Affiliations

    • Section of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, University of Chicago Medical Center and Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, USA
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  • Diana Bardo, MD

      Affiliations

    • Section of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, University of Chicago Medical Center and Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, USA
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  • R. Loch Macdonald, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Neurosurgery, St. Michael's Hospital, Keenan Research Centre and the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital and Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5B 1W8
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 416 864 5452.

Received 12 January 2008 ,Accepted 9 December 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.surneu.2008.12.017

World Neurosurgery
Volume 73, Issue 3 , Pages 165-173 , March 2010

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