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Surgical Management of Posterior Inferior Cerebellar Artery Aneurysms

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Advances in Surgery for Cerebral Stroke

Abstract

Posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA) aneurysms are rare and make up 0.65%–3% of all intracranial aneurysms [11, 21]. In 1953, Rizzoli and Hayes first reported successful surgical treatment of a PICA aneurysm operated in 1947 [25]. Since then, there have been several reports on the surgical management of PICA aneurysms [6, 7, 11, 13, 15, 21]. However, as these aneurysms are rare, surgical experience with them has generally been limited. We present our experience over the past 9 years with 11 patients who underwent clipping of PICA aneurysms.

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  1. Department of Neurological Surgery, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, USA

    James I. Ausman, Balaji Sadasivan, Fernando G. Diaz, Ghaus M. Malik & Manuel Dujovny

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Ausman, J.I., Sadasivan, B., Diaz, F.G., Malik, G.M., Dujovny, M. (1988). Surgical Management of Posterior Inferior Cerebellar Artery Aneurysms. In: Suzuki, J. (eds) Advances in Surgery for Cerebral Stroke. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-68314-8_7

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