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01-01-2019 | Case Report - Vascular Neurosurgery - Aneurysm

Clipping of a superior hypophyseal artery aneurysm during endoscopic transnasal removal of a Rathke cleft cyst: a case report

Authors: Carlo Serra, Martina Sebök, Lukas Widmer, Marian Christoph Neidert, Luca Regli

Published in: Acta Neurochirurgica | Issue 1/2019

Abstract

The concomitant presence of an aneurysm in contact with a sellar lesion usually contraindicates a transsphenoidal approach (TSS). Clipping of an intracranial aneurysm is however possible in highly selected cases also through an endoscopic TSS approach, as long as the basic principles of cerebrovascular surgery are respected. We report thus on a case of a patient harboring a Rathke cleft cyst (RCC) and an aneurysm of the carotid artery (ICA) in close contact with the RCC. The anatomical characteristics of both lesions warranted an endoscopic TSS for removal of the RCC and clipping of the aneurysm during the same approach.

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Title: Clipping of a superior hypophyseal artery aneurysm during endoscopic transnasal removal of a Rathke cleft cyst: a case report
Authors: Carlo Serra
Martina Sebök
Lukas Widmer
Marian Christoph Neidert
Luca Regli
Publication date: 01-01-2019
Publisher: Springer Vienna
Published in: Acta Neurochirurgica / Issue 1/2019
Print ISSN: 0001-6268
Electronic ISSN: 0942-0940
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00701-018-3728-0

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