23 Microsurgery for Unruptured Aneurysms

Vin Shen Ban, Salah G. Aoun, Tarek Y. El Ahmadieh, and H. Hunt Batjer

Abstract

Microsurgery for unruptured aneurysms is being increasingly challenged by technological advances in endovascular neurosurgery. In order to understand the indications for surgical treatment of an unruptured aneurysm, a thorough appreciation of the strengths and weaknesses of both techniques is required. This chapter introduces the key concepts in the workup of a patient with an unruptured intracranial aneurysm, and focuses on treatment considerations from a microsurgical perspective.

Key words

aneurysm - clipping - microsurgery - unruptured - cerebrovascular - bypass

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