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Case Reports
. 2005 Jan;26(1):198-200.

Desperate appliance

David M Pelz, Stephen P Lownie, Max Kole, David Ramsay
Case Reports

Desperate appliance

David M Pelz et al. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2005 Jan.
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Fig 1.
Right vertebral arteriogram (anteroposterior [AP]), shows a wide-necked basilar bifurcation aneurysm.
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Fig 2.
Postoperative arteriograms. A, Right vertebral arteriogram (AP), obtained after treatment with stents and coils, shows near complete obliteration of the aneurysm. B, Unsubtracted image obtained from the postoperative arteriogram shows the radiopaque markers at the ends of the stents (arrowheads).
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Fig 3.
CT head scan obtained 6 hours after treatment shows the pontine component of the acute brain stem hemorrhage (arrow).
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Fig 4.
Postmortem dissection of the circle of Willis, showing the coils inside an intact basilar bifurcation aneurysm (arrow). The stents are visible through the basilar and posterior cerebral arteries (arrowheads).
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Fig 5.
Gross specimen. Section through the midbrain shows the hematoma (arrow)
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Fig 6.
Microscopic section through the midbrain hemorrhage shows unusual intravascular foreign body granulomas (arrowheads) (H&E, ×8).
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