Korean Journal of Radiology

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Retrograde Stent Placement for Coil Embolization of a Wide-Necked Posterior Inferior Cerebellar Artery Aneurysm

  • Roh, Hong-Gee (Department of Radiology, Konkuk University School of Medicine) ;
  • Chun, Young-Il (Department of Neurosurgery, Konkuk University School of Medicine) ;
  • Choi, Jin-Woo (Department of Radiology, Konkuk University School of Medicine) ;
  • Cho, Joon (Department of Neurosurgery, Konkuk University School of Medicine) ;
  • Moon, Won-Jin (Department of Radiology, Konkuk University School of Medicine) ;
  • Solander, Sten (Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine)
  • Published : 2012.08.01
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Abstract

Wide-necked aneurysms of the posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA) are infrequently encountered in cerebrovascular practice, and endovascular treatment is difficult or impossible even with the use of several neck remodeling techniques. We present the case of a patient with a wide-necked aneurysm of the PICA, which was treated by the retrograde stenting through the contralateral vertebral artery and vertebrobasilar junction with antegrade coil embolization.

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