RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Basilar artery perforator aneurysms (BAPAs): review of the literature and classification
JF Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery
JO J NeuroIntervent Surg
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd.
SP 669
OP 673
DO 10.1136/neurintsurg-2016-012407
VO 9
IS 7
A1 Sudhakar R Satti
A1 Ansar Z Vance
A1 Dawn Fowler
A1 Anthony V Farmah
A1 Thinesh Sivapatham
YR 2017
UL http://jnis.bmj.com/content/9/7/669.abstract
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.