Possibilities and Limitations of Endovascular Techniques for the Treatment of Craniocerebral Aneurysms

Abstract

In recent years the skepticism of neurosurgeons regarding endovascular techniques for the treatment of craniocerebral aneurysms has given way to vivid interest in this topic. However, among those neurosurgeons who have operated craniocerebral aneurysms regularly there are still some doubts about reports on larger groups of patients with solely endovascularly treated cerebral aneurysms. Most recent reports [4] on outstanding results obtained in the endovascular treatment of small to minute cerebral aneurysms and those on the endovascular treatment of giant extradural and intradural aneurysms with microcoils and balloons raise questions as to the approach indicated for treatment that cannot be solved by the purely surgically trained neurosurgeon alone.