title: Transcerebellar thrombectomy for the successful clipping of thrombosed giant vertebral artery-posterior inferior cerebellar artery aneurysm: case report.
abstract: The operative technique used for a thrombosed vertebral artery-posterior inferior cerebellar artery aneurysm that was treated by combined transcerebellar (petrosal surface) thrombectomy and neck clipping is presented. Transcerebellar thrombectomy permitted the successful clipping of this thrombosed vertebral artery-posterior inferior cerebellar artery aneurysm via the cerebello-medullary cistern.
authors.affiliation: Neurosurgical Department, Ube Industries Central Hospital, Yamaguchi, Japan.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kurokawa
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Okamura
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Watanabe
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001158:Arteries / Q000601:surgery; D002531:Cerebellum / Q000098:blood supply*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D002532:Intracranial Aneurysm / Q000601:surgery*; D002542:Intracranial Embolism and Thrombosis / Q000601:surgery*; D014711:Vertebral Artery / Q000601:surgery*; D014715:Vertebrobasilar Insufficiency / Q000601:surgery*