Giant thrombosed vertebral artery aneurysm managed with extracranial-intracranial bypass surgery and aneurysmectomy. Case report.

Wakui, K; Kobayashi, S; Takemae, T; Kamijoh, Y; Nagashima, H; Muraoka, S · J Neurosurg · 1992

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Abstract

A case is presented of a left giant thrombosed vertebral artery aneurysm in a 46-year-old man. The giant thrombosed aneurysm was successfully resected with trapping of the affected artery after right external carotid artery-posterior cerebral artery bypass surgery using a radial arterial graft. The clinical course is reported, and the details of the operative approach and techniques are discussed.

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