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Vertebral Dissecting Aneurysm Treated with Trapping and Bilateral Posterior Inferior Cerebellar Artery Side-to Side Anastomosis; Case report Shugo TAKIKAWA 1 , Hiroyasu KAMIYAMA 1 , Mikio NOMURA 1 , Hiroshi ABE 1 , Hisatoshi SAITOH 2 1Department of Neurosurgery, Hokkaido University 2Sapporo Azabu Neurosurgical Hospital Keyword: Vertebral artery , Dissecting aneurysm , Trapping , Bilateral posterior inferior cerebellar artery(PICA)side-to-side anastomosis pp.571-576
Published Date 1991/6/10
DOI https://doi.org/10.11477/mf.1436900278
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A case is reported of ruptured dissecting aneurysm of the intracranial vertebral artery (VA) operated on with VA trapping and bilateral posterior inferior cere-bellar artery (PICA) side-to-side anastomosis.

A 42-year-old male suddenly developed severe headache and vomiting. On admission, 3 hours later, he was in a state of moderate confusion (Japan Coma Scale 3) and had neck stiffness. Computed tomography (CT) revealed diffuse subarachnoid hemorrhage, espe-cially thick in the posterior fossa with right side domi-nancy. Right vertebral angiography disclosed a fusi-form dilatation with proximal narrowing of the right VA which originated just proximal to the VA-PICA junction. Lateral suboccipital craniectomy was under-taken with the patient in a left park bench position. Right VA was dilated and discolored black, and right PICA arose from the proximal portion of this aneurys-mal dilatation. Since it was impossible to clip the VA distal to the PICA for the proximal clip-occlusion, the VA including the VA-PICA junction was trapped. Con-sidering the risk of developing infarction at the PICA territory, bilateral PICA was anastomosed at their posterior medullary segment in a side-to-side fashionbecause the occipital artery (OA) had been cut at the skin incision and could not be used for the OA-PICA anastomosis. The postoperative course was benign, but a mild lateral medullary syndrome developed. CT re-vealed no abnormal low density area and left vertebral angiography demonstrated the patency of the bypass. Thereafter, the deficit subsided gradually and the pa-tient was discharged. He is presently working without neurological deficit.

As far as we know, this is the first case that has undergone PICA-PICA side-to-side anastomosis. When performing revascularization of the PICA, the OA-PICA anastomosis is thought to be the one of choice. Since an intracranial interarterial bypass such as the PICA-PICA anastomosis runs the risk of enlarging the infarction in case of unsuccessful anastomosis, it should not be attempted lightly. This operative procedure, however, might be taken into consideration by skillful surgeons when the OA cannot be used as a donor artery, as in this case. Most of VA dissecting aneurysms cannot be operated on with neck clipping and require proximal VA occlusion or trapping. There-fore, it is considered that we should always take into account the possible necessity of revascularization dur-ing the operation. If it is necessary, we should under-take it positively if there is any likelihood that ischemiamay develop because of occlusion of the parent artery.


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