Transcallosal, transventricular approach to a basilar apex aneurysm.
A new approach to the basilar apex in a patient with a megadolichobasilar anomaly and an abnormally rostral basilar apex aneurysm is described. The details of the surgical approach and the advantages and limitations of this transcallosal, interseptal approach are described.
de los Reyes
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Department of Neurological Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York.
Kantrowitz
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Boehm
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Spatola
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D000328:Adult; D001488:Basilar Artery / Q000601:surgery; D002533:Cerebral Angiography; D002552:Cerebral Ventricles; D003337:Corpus Callosum; D006801:Humans; D002532:Intracranial Aneurysm / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed