Abstract
OBJECTIVE: We describe a patient with a mid-basilar aneurysm treated with combined endoscope-assisted transsphenoidal clipping and endovascular stenting. CLINICAL PRESENTATION: A 28-year-old woman was transferred to the cranial base surgery center with an acute Grade III subarachnoid hemorrhage. Cerebral angiography demonstrated a small basilar trunk aneurysm that was not amenable to acute endovascular treatment. INTERVENTION: The patient underwent sublabial transsphenoidal/transclival endoscope-assisted clipping of the aneurysm and subsequent stenting of the affected segment. The aneurysm was repaired with a low-profile Weck clip (Weck Closure Systems Research, Triangle Park, NC) that permitted a watertight closure of the clival dura using cardiac Medtronic U-clips (Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN). Postoperatively, the patient had no evidence of cerebrospinal fluid leakage. CONCLUSION: Watertight dural closure was possible due to the use of a low-profile aneurysm clip that did not protrude through the dural defect, as well as self-tying sutures.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | ONSE142-ONSE144 |
| Journal | Neurosurgery |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue number | 3 SUPPL. 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Mar 2008 |
| Externally published | Yes |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Surgery
- Clinical Neurology
Keywords
- Basilar trunk aneurysm
- Endoscopic transsphenoidal clipping
- Endovascular stenting