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Complications of Surgery for Vertebrobasilar Artery Aneurysms and Final Comments

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Surgery of Vertebrobasilar Aneurysms

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Specific and unique complications of vertebrobasilar aneurysm surgery were recognized by the senior author in the early 1960’s: of the first 12 patients, only 5 had satisfactory results while 2 were poor and 5 died. In vertebrobasilar aneurysms, the difficulties with exposure and clip application may lead to the calamity of inadvertent major vessel occlusion, midbrain and/or thalamic infarction from perforator injury, problems in dealing with inadvertent intraoperative rupture, imperfect clipping with early rerupture, and frequent cranial nerve injuries.

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  1. Sydney J. Peerless M.D., FRCSC (Director)

    Present address: Mercy Neuroscience Institute, 3661 South Miami Avenue, Ste. 209, 33133, Miami, Florida, USA

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  1. Department of Surgery, University of Western Ontario, University Hospital, 339 Windermere Road, N6A 5A5, London, Ontario, Canada

    Charles G. Drake OC, M.D., FRCSC (Former Professor and Chairman)

  2. Division of Neurosurgery, University of Western Ontario, University Hospital, 339 Windermere Road, N6A 5A5, London, Ontario, Canada

    Charles G. Drake OC, M.D., FRCSC (Former Professor and Chairman) & Sydney J. Peerless M.D., FRCSC (Director)

  3. Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital of Kuopio, FIN-70210, Kuopio, Finland

    Juha A. Hernesniemi M.D., Ph.D.

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Drake, C.G., Peerless, S.J., Hernesniemi, J.A. (1996). Complications of Surgery for Vertebrobasilar Artery Aneurysms and Final Comments. In: Surgery of Vertebrobasilar Aneurysms. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-9409-6_25

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