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Non-Giant (Small and Large) Basilar Superior Cerebellar Artery Aneurysms: 210 Patients

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This aneurysm arises at the crotch of the origin of the superior cerebellar artery (SCA), but the neck soon takes in all of the narrow lateral portion of the basilar artery between the SCA and the P1. Although the SCAs may be duplicated, aneurysms arising at the lower branching of a duplication have not been seen. On one occasion, this aneurysm seemed to arise from the obtuse inferior angle of the SCA origin with the artery adherent to and coursing above the sac. This aneurysm occurs more often on the left side (two-thirds), is common in females (three-fourths), and is often associated with multiple aneurysms (40%). Bilateral aneurysms have been seen three times.

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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). Non-Giant (Small and Large) Basilar Superior Cerebellar Artery Aneurysms: 210 Patients. In: Surgery of Vertebrobasilar Aneurysms. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-9409-6_7

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