title: Treatment of a giant basilar artery aneurysm with a bridging stent and subsequent coil occlusion of the stent: case report.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To report the treatment of a symptomatic giant basilar artery aneurysm in a child.
  
  
  METHODS
  A 7-year-old girl presented with a 2-month history of progressive right hemiparesis caused by a huge fusiform aneurysm of the basilar artery with compression of the brainstem. INTERVENTION OR TECHNIQUE: The patient was treated with a bridging bare stent and occlusion of the stent lumen with detachable coils.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The patient experienced immediate total occlusion of the aneurysm with almost total recuperation after 1 year.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. guido.wilms@uz.kuleuven.ac.be
authors.forename: Guido
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Wilms
authors.forename: Gunnar
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Buyse
authors.forename: Johan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: van Loon
authors.forename: Geert
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Maleux
mesh_terms: D015901:Angiography, Digital Subtraction; D002648:Child; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D002532:Intracranial Aneurysm / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D018810:Magnetic Resonance Angiography; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D019635:Neurosurgical Procedures; D010291:Paresis / Q000209:etiology; D015607:Stents; D036542:Tomography, Spiral Computed; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed