Abstract
Background
Blood blister-like aneurysms (BBAs) pose a significant challenge to neurosurgeons and neuro-interventionalists. These fragile broad-based aneurysms have a propensity to rupture with minimal manipulation during surgical or endovascular explorations because, unlike saccular aneurysms, they lack all layers of the arterial wall. Aneurysm trapping with extracranial-intracranial (EC-IC) bypass is a safe and durable treatment for BBAs.
Methods
We describe our technique and the guiding principles for surgical bypass and trapping of BBAs of the supraclinoid internal carotid artery (ICA).
Conclusions
Treatment of BBAs of the supraclinoid ICA remains difficult. Aneurysm trapping with EC-IC bypass treats BBAs definitively by eliminating the diseased segment of the ICA. We have found the technique and principles described here to be safe and durable in our hands.
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Abbreviations
- ACA:
-
Anterior cerebral artery
- AchoA:
-
Anterior choroidal artery
- BBAs:
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Blood blister-like aneurysms
- BTO:
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Balloon test occlusion
- EEG:
-
Electroencephalography
- ECA:
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External carotid artery
- ICA:
-
Internal carotid artery
- ICG-VA:
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Indocyanine green videoangiography
- MCA:
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Middle cerebral artery
- PCA:
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Posterior cerebral artery
- PcomA:
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Posterior communicating artery
- RA:
-
Radial artery
- SAH:
-
Subarachnoid hemorrhage
- SCM:
-
Sternocleidomastoid
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Cıkla, U., Baggott, C. & Başkaya, M.K. How I do it: treatment of blood blister-like aneurysms of the supraclinoid internal carotid artery by extracranial-to-intracranial bypass and trapping. Acta Neurochir 156, 2071–2077 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00701-014-2212-8
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