title: Scanning electron microscopic findings in a basilar tip aneurysm embolized with Guglielmi detachable coils.
abstract: With the growing use of endovascular therapy for intracranial aneurysms, it is important that we understand at a cellular level the processes that lead to lesion obliteration. We present autopsy findings, including electron and light microscopic studies, of a basilar artery aneurysm that was successfully embolized with the Guglielmi detachable coil system 4 weeks before the patient died.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas 75235, USA.
authors.forename: M B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Horowitz
authors.forename: P D
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: Purdy
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Burns
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bellotto
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000783:Aneurysm / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy; D017542:Aneurysm, Ruptured / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D001344:Autopsy; D001488:Basilar Artery / Q000473:pathology*; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D002532:Intracranial Aneurysm / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; D013345:Subarachnoid Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D016896:Treatment Outcome