Microsurgical clipping of an unruptured lenticulostriate aneurysm

Document Type

Article

Abstract

Aneurysms of the lenticulostriate artery have been associated with hypertension, vasculopathy, tumors, and arteriovenous malformations. Although several cases of microsurgical treatment of ruptured lenticulostriate artery aneurysms have been reported, to our knowledge there is no published case of microsurgical treatment of an unruptured lenticulostriate artery aneurysm. We report a 66-year-old woman with a history of moyamoya disease, previously treated with a right-sided middle cerebral artery-to-superficial temporal artery bypass who presented with an unruptured aneurysm of a lenticulostriate artery. We report successful microsurgical treatment of this rare lesion and discuss the rationale for our treatment strategy.

Medical Subject Headings

Aged; Basal Ganglia Cerebrovascular Disease (pathology, surgery); Cerebral Angiography; Craniotomy; Female; Humans; Intracranial Aneurysm (pathology, surgery); Microsurgery (methods); Moyamoya Disease (complications, surgery); Neurosurgical Procedures (methods); Postoperative Care

Publication Date

11-1-2012

Publication Title

Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia

E-ISSN

1532-2653

Volume

19

Issue

11

First Page

1578

Last Page

80

PubMed ID

22925414

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

10.1016/j.jocn.2012.03.006

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