Stenting and Coil Embolization of a Ruptured Dissecting Basilar Artery Aneurysm Associated with Coil Embolization of a Pericallosal Artery Aneurysm

Abstract

We describe the case of a 54-year-old woman who underwent endovascular treatment in the setting of a massive subarachnoid haemorrhage due to rupture of a dissecting basilar trunk aneurysm treated with stent implantation and coiling. A further saccular aneurysm in the left pericallosal artery disclosed by four-vessel angiography was treated with coiling during the same procedure. Follow-up DSA performed after six months confirmed complete occlusion of both aneurysms and patency of the stent.

Keywords

dissecting aneurysms subarachnoid haemorrhage intracranial stenting coiling

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