Surgical treatment of vertebral and posterior inferior cerebellar artery aneurysms

C S Ogilvy; A Quinones-Hinojosa

Surgical treatment of vertebral and posterior inferior cerebellar artery aneurysms

Neurosurg Clin N Am. 1998 Oct;9(4):851-60.

Authors

C S Ogilvy¹, A Quinones-Hinojosa

Affiliation

¹ Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 02114-2698, USA.

PMID: 9738111

Abstract

Aneurysms of the vertebral and posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA) are uncommon. Surgical approaches to vertebral artery and PICA aneurysms and patient outcome using surgical or endovascular techniques are discussed in this article.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Arteries / surgery
Cerebellum / blood supply*
Cerebral Angiography
Craniotomy / methods
Humans
Intracranial Aneurysm / diagnostic imaging
Intracranial Aneurysm / surgery*
Microsurgery / methods
Subarachnoid Hemorrhage / diagnostic imaging
Subarachnoid Hemorrhage / surgery
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Treatment Outcome
Vertebral Artery / diagnostic imaging
Vertebral Artery / surgery*