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The following case concerns a young female patient with spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) due to a ruptured aneurysm originating at a non-fused, fenestrated proximal segment of the basilar artery. The aneurysm was treated with endovascular coil embolization which resulted in complete exclusion, and the patient showed a complete clinical recovery. A second aneurysm originating from the left internal carotid artery (ICA) was diagnosed during the follow-up and was treated in a separate session using a flow diverter stent. Three additional cases of ruptured aneurysms of non-fused basilar arteries are presented at the end of the discussion. Basilar artery fenestration with associated aneurysm formation is the main topic of this chapter.
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AlMatter, M., Aguilar Pérez, M., Ganslandt, O., Henkes, H. (2018). Basilar Artery Trunk Aneurysm: Spontaneous Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Due to an Aneurysm Associated with a Fenestration of the Basilar Artery, Endovascular Coil Occlusion. In: Henkes, H., Lylyk, P., Ganslandt, O. (eds) The Aneurysm Casebook. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70267-4_64-1
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