We present the case of a 49-year-old woman with sudden onset of severe headaches and a ruptured aneurysm located inside the fenestration of the infraclinoid part of the internal carotid artery in the segments C4 and C5 distal to the origin of the ophthalmic artery. An interdisciplinary approach enabled the successful treatment of the aneurysm by wrapping and stent-assisted coiling. We discuss this rare congenital anomaly of a fenestrated internal carotid artery together with the 12 other cases published worldwide.
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