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Neurosurg Focus 38 (1):Video 17, 2015

Direct clipping of large basilar trunk aneurysm Toshikazu Kimura, M.D.,1 Daichi Nakagawa, M.D.,2 and Kensuke Kawai, M.D., Ph.D.2 1 Department of Neurosurgery, NTT Medical Center Tokyo; and 2Department of Neurosurgery, the University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

A large basilar trunk aneurysm was incidentally found in a 77-year-old woman in examination for headache. Though it was asymptomatic, high signal intensity was noticed in the brainstem around the aneurysm on FLAIR image of MRI. As she was otherwise healthy, surgical clipping was performed through anterior temporal approach. The video can be found here: http://youtu.be/0soWM8meCW8. Key words  clipping; basilar trunk aneurysm; 3D simulation

submitted  August 31, 2014.  accepted  October 9, 2014. include when citing  DOI: 10.3171/2015.V1.FOCUS14577. Correspondence  Toshikazu Kimura, M.D., NTT Medical Center, Tokyo, Higashi-Gotanda 5-9-22, Shinagawa-Ku, Tokyo, Japan, 141-8625. Email: [email protected]. ©AANS, 2015

Neurosurg Focus  Volume 38 (Suppl 1) • January 2015

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