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Surgery of Vertebrobasilar Aneurysms pp 42–54Cite as

Large (or Bulbous) Basilar Bifurcation Aneurysms (12.5–25 mm) 265 Patients

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Two patients with remote bleeds 15 months and 4 years ago were classified with the 40 unruptured aneurysms (Table 4.1). In the remaining, besides the usual clinical symptoms of subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), 23 had CNIII palsy, one of them bilaterally. Trochlear nerve palsy was seen in four, one bilaterally, and sixth nerve palsy in seven patients, three times bilaterally.

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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). Large (or Bulbous) Basilar Bifurcation Aneurysms (12.5–25 mm) 265 Patients. In: Surgery of Vertebrobasilar Aneurysms. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-9409-6_4

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