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Dolichoectatic basilar artery treated by reducing hemodynamic stress--report of two cases
K Matsumoto1, K Yamada, T Hayakawa
1Department of Neurosurgery, Osaka University Medical School, Japan.
Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica
|September 1, 1990
Abstract:
Two cases of dolichoectatic basilar artery with a mass effect to the brainstem structure were treated by reducing hemodynamic stress. In one case, angiograms showed the dolichoectatic basilar artery creating a turbulent flow in the vertebrobasilar junction, and unilateral vertebral artery clipping in addition to posterior fossa decompression was performed. The other case, a combination with bilateral internal carotid artery occlusion, underwent bilateral superficial temporal artery-middle cerebral artery anastomoses. The possible surgical treatments of dolichoectasia are discussed.