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Case Reports
. 2013 Feb;155(2):283-4.
doi: 10.1007/s00701-012-1555-2. Epub 2012 Nov 23.

Unusual angiographic images of unruptured, large, kissing middle cerebral artery aneurysms

Bogdan Czapiga, Marta Kozba-Gosztyla, Slawomir Bereza, Wlodzimierz Jarmundowicz
Case Reports

Unusual angiographic images of unruptured, large, kissing middle cerebral artery aneurysms

Bogdan Czapiga et al. Acta Neurochir (Wien). 2013 Feb.
No abstract available

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Figures

Fig. 1
Fig. 1
a Preoperative T2-weighted MR image showing a pathological mass in the location of the first right MCA bifurcation. b Right internal carotid artery rotational 3D DSA showing saccular aneurysm (arrow) with network of tortuous, segmentally ectatic vessels (arrowhead). c Schematic drawing showing kissing aneurysms and the arrangement of feeding vessels. d Postoperative angiogram revealing successful obliteration of the two aneurysms with preservation of normal blood flow through the right middle cerebral artery and all of its branches
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