Neuroform stent deployment for treatment of a basilar tip aneurysm via a posterior communicating artery route

DeWitte T Cross 3rd; Christopher J Moran; Colin P Derdeyn; Avi Mazumdar; Dennis Rivet; Michael M Chicoine

Neuroform stent deployment for treatment of a basilar tip aneurysm via a posterior communicating artery route

AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2005 Nov-Dec;26(10):2578-81.

Authors

DeWitte T Cross 3rd¹, Christopher J Moran, Colin P Derdeyn, Avi Mazumdar, Dennis Rivet, Michael M Chicoine

Affiliation

¹ Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.

PMID: 16286404
PMCID: PMC7976205

Abstract

Coiling of a wide-necked basilar tip aneurysm can be accomplished in selected cases by placing a single Neuroform stent horizontally across the aneurysm neck via a posterior communicating artery approach rather than by placing 2 stents in a Y configuration via a basilar artery approach.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adult
Balloon Occlusion
Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation
Cerebral Angiography
Device Removal / instrumentation
Female
Humans
Intracranial Aneurysm / diagnostic imaging
Intracranial Aneurysm / therapy*
Posterior Cerebral Artery / diagnostic imaging
Posterior Cerebral Artery / pathology*
Recurrence
Stents*
Subarachnoid Hemorrhage / diagnostic imaging
Subarachnoid Hemorrhage / therapy
Tomography, X-Ray Computed