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Why do We Classify the Brain Aneurysms into Eight Categories?

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The classification of the brain aneurysms is essential to guiding treatment planning, stratifying procedure-associated risks, and predicting treatment outcome. The principles for surgical and endovascular treatment of brain aneurysms differ from each other. The aneurysm’s location plays a pivotal role in choosing the strategy of the surgical treatment/clipping, whereas morphology is the most crucial factor for endovascular treatment. Correspondingly, the outcome and result of the endovascular treatment are also highly related to the aneurysm morphology. A redesigned classification of the brain aneurysm emphasizing the morphology of the aneurysms will likely help improve endovascular treatment. Therefore, based on the anatomic morphological features, we classified the intracranial/extracranial aneurysms into eight catigories and discussed specific treatment strategies and techniques for each one.

This chapter describes the following eight types/categories:

  1. 1.

    Narrow-neck aneurysm.

  2. 2.

    Wide-neck aneurysm.

  3. 3.

    Blood blister/small aneurysm.

  4. 4.

    Fusiform/dissecting aneurysm.

  5. 5.

    Recurrent/residual aneurysm.

  6. 6.

    Large and giant aneurysm.

  7. 7.

    Infectious aneurysm (mycotic aneurysm).

  8. 8.

    Pseudoaneurysm and artery injury.

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Ren, Z. (2022). Why do We Classify the Brain Aneurysms into Eight Categories?. In: Eight Aneurysms. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97216-5_1

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