Treatment of a giant basilar artery aneurysm with a bridging stent and subsequent coil occlusion of the stent: case report.
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.
Wilms
Guido
G
Department of Radiology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. guido.wilms@uz.kuleuven.ac.be
Buyse
Gunnar
G
van Loon
Johan
J
Maleux
Geert
G
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