title: The "temporary caging" technique for catheter navigation in patients with intracranial wide-necked aneurysms.
abstract: Endovascular treatment of wide-necked aneurysms with preservation of the parent artery remains a challenge. The authors describe a novel and simple technique to navigate a balloon or stent-delivery catheter across a wide-necked aneurysm in which previously existing methods could have failed to pass the catheter across the neck of the aneurysm, which we have named "temporary caging" technique. The technical results using this method are presented in 6 cases.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, St. Marianna University School of Medicine Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan.
authors.forename: Hidemichi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ito
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, St. Marianna University School of Medicine Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan.
authors.forename: Hidetaka
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Onodera
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, St. Marianna University School of Medicine Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan.
authors.forename: Daisuke
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wakui
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, St. Marianna University School of Medicine Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan.
authors.forename: Masashi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Uchida
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, St. Marianna University School of Medicine Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan.
authors.forename: Taigen
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sase
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Kawasaki Municipal Hospital Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan.
authors.forename: Hiroyuki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Morishima
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, St. Marianna University School of Medicine Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan.
authors.forename: Kotaro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Oshio
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, St. Marianna University School of Medicine Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan.
authors.forename: Yuichiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tanaka
keywords: Aneurysm; balloon-assisted coil embolization; remodeling; stent-assisted coil embolization; wide-necked aneurysm