title: Endovascular embolization of unruptured vertebral dissection using Guglielmi electrolytically detachable coils: case report.
abstract: We present a patient with unruptured vertebral dissection whose angiograph showed further enlargement of the aneurysm, after a transient reduction in the size of the fusiform dilatation. Tolerance of parent artery occlusion was first confirmed by a balloon occlusion test. Both proximal and distal portions of the vertebral artery, including the dissected site, were occluded using Guglielmi electrolytically detachable coils; there were no complications. No new symptoms occurred during a 9-month follow-up period. For cases presenting with angiographic aneurysmal enlargement, embolization of the lesion using electrolytically detachable coils may be effective.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Kanazawa University School of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nomura
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kida
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yamashita
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yoshikawa
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Matsui
mesh_terms: D000784:Aortic Dissection / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D004572:Electrolysis / Q000295:instrumentation; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011859:Radiography; D013997:Time Factors; D014711:Vertebral Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging