TY - JOUR T1 - Basilar artery perforator aneurysms (BAPAs): review of the literature and classification JF - Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery JO - J NeuroIntervent Surg SP - 669 LP - 673 DO - 10.1136/neurintsurg-2016-012407 VL - 9 IS - 7 AU - Sudhakar R Satti AU - Ansar Z Vance AU - Dawn Fowler AU - Anthony V Farmah AU - Thinesh Sivapatham Y1 - 2017/07/01 UR - http://jnis.bmj.com/content/9/7/669.abstract N2 - 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. ER -