Bifrontal craniotomy for anterior communicating artery aneurysms

1972 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 212-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Lawrence Pool

✓ The results in 60 cases of ruptured aneurysm of the anterior communicating artery are analyzed.

1991 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Gibbons ◽  
Leo N. Hopkins ◽  
Roberto C. Heros

✓ Two cases are presented in which clip occlusion of a third distal anterior cerebral artery segment occurred during treatment of anterior communicating artery aneurysms. Case histories, angiograms, operative descriptions, and postmortem findings are presented. The incidence of this anomalous vessel is reviewed. Preoperative and intraoperative vigilance in determining the presence of this anomaly prior to clip placement is emphasized.


1980 ◽  
Vol 52 (6) ◽  
pp. 790-793 ◽  
Author(s):  
John F. Alksne ◽  
Randall W. Smith

✓ The authors review 22 consecutive cases of anterior communicating artery aneurysms treated by stereotaxic iron-acrylic occlusion. There was no mortality and no rebleeding in this series. The morbidity was low, and 16 of the 22 patients have returned to work. The patients whose aneurysms could be treated transsphenoidally enjoyed the best outcome.


1981 ◽  
Vol 54 (5) ◽  
pp. 677-680 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcia Katz ◽  
Hugh S. Wisoff ◽  
Robert D. Zimmerman

✓ Unique radiographic and autopsy findings are described in a patient with bilateral basilar artery-middle meningeal artery (BA-MMA) anastomoses associated with a ruptured aneurysm of the anterior communicating artery. The literature, anatomy, and embryology of BA-MMA anastomosis is reviewed.


1981 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 342-345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiro Suzuki ◽  
Takashi Yoshimoto ◽  
Kazuo Mizoi

✓ Results of surgical treatment of anterior communicating artery aneurysms, approached via bifrontal craniotomy, are reported in 110 cases. It was possible to preserve the olfactory tracts bilaterally or unilaterally in over 65% of these cases: 47% with bilateral preservation and 34% with unilateral preservation; 33% of the patients with bilateral olfactory tract damage reported subjectively normal olfaction. Objective examination of olfaction by an otolaryngologist showed that 84% of the patients reporting normal olfaction did indeed have normal olfaction, whereas 91% of these reporting no olfaction were anosmic.


1972 ◽  
Vol 37 (6) ◽  
pp. 753-758 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thoralf M. Sundt

✓ Analysis of the use of the clip-graft for intracranial aneurysms indicates that the clip-graft is chiefly applicable to internal carotid and anterior communicating artery aneurysms. The development of the right-angle clip holder has extended its use to anterior communicating artery aneurysms that project posteriorly or superiorly. The dangers of dissection in the septal region are discussed. With few exceptions, the clip-graft is not applicable to the vertebrobasilar system or middle cerebral artery trifurcation aneurysms, although it has been used for aneurysms arising from the trunk of the latter vessel.


1989 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 144-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles E. Poletti

✓ As an alternative to approaching anterior communicating artery (ACoA) aneurysms through the frontal fossa, either parasagittally or laterally (pterional, gyrus rectus approach), this report describes an approach to ACoA aneurysms through the temporal fossa. The main advantages of this temporal technique are that it requires less brain retraction, gives better surgical orientation, gains control of both A1 segments before disturbing the aneurysm, and involves minimal resection of brain tissue. This temporal approach has recently been used by the author in 20 consecutive operations for ACoA aneurysms in preference to the gyrus rectus approach.


1980 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 162-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryungchan Kwak ◽  
Hiroshi Niizuma ◽  
Mitsuaki Hatanaka ◽  
Jiro Suzuki

✓ In 296 cases with a single aneurysm of the anterior communicating artery (ACoA), fenestration or the presence of more than two ACoA's was observed in 17 cases (5.7%), and abnormal vessels of ACoA origin, such as a median artery of the corpus callosum, were observed in 13 cases (4.4%). As more than one anomaly was found in some of these cases, anomalies of the ACoA were found in a total of 26 cases (8.8%). This occurrence rate was no higher than that observed in other cerebral aneurysm cases and in the control cases, which were reported previously. There was no significant increase of hypoplasia of the A1 portion if the ACoA aneurysm was complicated by other arterial anomalies.


1971 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felix Durity ◽  
Valentine Logue

✓ The arteriographic changes occurring in the anterior communicating aneurysmal sacs in 43 cases treated by ligation of the anterior cerebral artery have been presented and discussed.


1981 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sumio Tsukamoto ◽  
Yutaka Hori ◽  
Shozaburo Utsumi ◽  
Tatsuo Tanigake ◽  
Nobuo Horiike ◽  
...  

✓ A case of proatlantal intersegmental artery with absence of bilateral vertebral arteries is presented. This rare anomaly was accidentally encountered on angiography in a patient with a ruptured aneurysm of the anterior communicating artery.


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