Skull Base 1992; 2(2): 98-102
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1057118
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Subtemporal Transpetrosal Approach to Ruptured Midbasilar Trunk Aneurysm

Yoshitoshi Inoue, Junichi Mikami, Nobuyuki Omiya, Shuji Okawara
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Publication Date:
03 March 2008 (online)

Abstract

Aneurysms arising from the midbasilar trunk are not common, and surgical management of these aneurysms remains a difficult challenge to neurosurgeons because of its anatomic characteristics. The authors report on a patient with a ruptured aneurysm arising from the basilar artery at the origin of the anterior inferior cerebellar artery and projecting to the right and upward. The aneurysm was successfully treated by a subtemporal transpetrosal approach in an acute stage.