title: Coil embolization combined with stenting for a giant basilar trunk aneurysm. A case report.
abstract: A 52-year-old male presented with left oculomotor nerve palsy. Angiograms revealed a giant basilar trunk aneurysm with a maximum diameter of 32 mm and a wide neck of 18 mm, located between the superior cerebellar artery and the anterior inferior cerebellar artery and without opacification of posterior communicating arteries. Intra-aneurysmal embolization of the dome was followed by deployment of a 24mm-long coronary balloon-expandable stent across the neck of the aneurysm. Additional coil embolization of the aneurysmal neck produced good clinical and angiographic results.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine; Kobe, Japan - nakam@med.kobe-u.ac.jp.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nakamura
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fujita
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kohmura