PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Sudhakar R Satti
AU  - Ansar Z Vance
AU  - Dawn Fowler
AU  - Anthony V Farmah
AU  - Thinesh Sivapatham
TI  - Basilar artery perforator aneurysms (BAPAs): review of the literature and classification
AID  - 10.1136/neurintsurg-2016-012407
DP  - 2017 Jul 01
TA  - Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery
PG  - 669--673
VI  - 9
IP  - 7
4099  - http://jnis.bmj.com/content/9/7/669.short
4100  - http://jnis.bmj.com/content/9/7/669.full
SO  - J NeuroIntervent Surg2017 Jul 01; 9
AB  - Basilar artery perforator aneurysms (BAPAs) are an uncommon subtype of perforating artery aneurysms, with only 18 published cases since their initial description in 1996 by Ghogawala et al. To date, there are only seven published cases of ruptured BAPAs treated using endovascular techniques. Given the rarity of these aneurysms, the natural history and ideal approach to treatment has not been established. We describe a new endovascular approach to treating these aneurysms using staged telescoping stents, summarize all published cases of BAPAs, and present a unique classification system to enable future papers to standardize descriptions.