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Minimally Invasive Thumb-sized Pterional Craniotomy for Surgical Clip Ligation of Unruptured Anterior Circulation Aneurysms
Published on: August 11, 2015
Extracranial severe carotid stenosis and incidental intracranial aneurysms
Enzo Ballotta1, Giuseppe Da Giau, Renzo Manara
1Vascular Surgery Section of the Geriatric Surgical Clinic, Department of Surgical and Gastroenterological Sciences, University of Padua, School of Medicine, Padua, Italy. enzo.ballotta@unipd.it
Abstract:
Among 474 patients having 547 carotid endarterectomies (CEAs) over an 80-month period, 11 (2.3%) with symptomatic (n = 8) and asymptomatic (n = 3) severe (>70%) carotid stenosis had 12 asymptomatic intracranial aneurysms (IAs). None had postoperative stroke or died, and none had surgical or endovascular IA treatment before or after CEA. In an average 5-year follow-up, no patients had subarachnoid hemorrhage. Having an IA does not seem to be an additional risk factor for CEA, nor does CEA seem to increase the chance of IA rupture.
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