Posterior inferior cerebellar artery aneurysms: Anatomical variations and surgical strategies

Coil embolization of posterior inferior cerebellar artery isolated aneurysms.

I read with great interest the article by Tikkakoski et al (1) describing their treatment of an isolated dissecting aneurysm of the left posterior inferior cerebellar artery with Guglielni detachable coils (GDCs). I would like to draw the authors’ attention to two additional articles relating to this subject. One article published in the Journal of Neurosurgery was a case report of an isolated ...

The Endovascular Management of Saccular Posterior Inferior Cerebellar Artery Aneurysms

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this retrospective study was to report the outcome of the endovascular treatment of eight patients with eight saccular posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA) aneurysms. MATERIALS AND METHODS Over the last seven years (1999-2006), eight consecutive patients with saccular PICA aneurysms were treated by endovascular methods. Five of the aneurysms were presented with...

Endovascular treatment of distal posterior inferior cerebellar artery aneurysms

OBJECTIVE To assess the feasibility and results of endovascular treatment for ruptured distal posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA) aneurysms. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed our experience and results with endovascular treatments for a series of 13 consecutive patients with ruptured distal PICA aneurysms at the Southwest Hospital, Chongqing, China, treated between June 2011 and Jan...

Endovascular treatment of ruptured vertebral artery dissecting aneurysms involving the posterior inferior cerebellar artery.

Dissecting Aneurysms Involving the Posterior Inferior Cerebellar Artery We read the article of Kim et al entitled “Stenting from the Vertebral Artery to the Posterior Inferior Cerebellar Artery” with special interest. In their series, 2 patients had vertebral artery (VA) dissecting aneurysms involving the posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA) origin. The authors used VA-to-PICA stent plac...

Isolated Posterior Inferior Cerebellar Artery Dissection