title: Treatment of vertebro-basilar dissecting aneurysms using intravascular stents.
abstract: Endovascular surgery is an established primary therapeutic modality for dissecting aneurysms at vertebro-basilar arteries. Intravascular stents can be used to treat the dissecting aneurysms for which simple obliteration procedures cannot be used. In such cases, stent implantation alone or a combination of stents and coils need to be selected properly by taking into consideration the site and shape of dissections. In this report, three patterns of stent application are described and their method of selection is discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Tsuchiura Kyodo General Hospital; Ibaraki, Japan - sy0221@snow.odn.ne.jp.
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authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yamasaki
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authors.lastname: Hashimoto
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authors.lastname: Kawano
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authors.lastname: Yoshimura
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authors.lastname: Yamamoto
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