Type of Surgery
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Last updated: 11/24/2009
BOOKS
Aldrich, E. Francois, et al. "Neurosurgery." In Textbook ofSurgery, edited by Courtney m. Townsend. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company, 2001.
Hoff, Julian T. and Michael F. Boland. "Neurosurgery." In...
Principles of Surgery, Vol. 2, edited by Seymour I. Schwartz. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1999.
PERIODICALS
"International Subarachnoid Aneurysm Trial (ISAT) of Neurosurgical Clipping versus Endovascular Coiling in 2143 Patients with Ruptured Intracranial Aneurysms: A Randomised Trial."The Lancet 360, no. 9342 (October 2002): 1267.
Pope, Wendi L. "Cerebral Vessel Repair with Coils & Glue."Nursing (July 2002): 47–49.
ORGANIZATIONS
American Association of Neurological Surgeons.
American Society of Interventional and Therapeutic Neuroradiology.
OTHER
Greenberg, Mark S. Handbook of Neurosurgery, 1997 [cited March 1, 2003].
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Definition
Cerebral aneurysm repair involves corrective treatment of an abnormal blood-filled sac formed by localized expansion of an artery or vein within the brain. These sacs tend to form at the juncture between a primary vessel and a branch. If the vessel involved is an artery, the lesion is also known as a berry aneurysm because of its round, berry-like appearance.
Purpose
The purpose of the surgical treatment of cerebral aneurysms is to isolate the weakened vessel area from the blood supply. This is commonly done through the strategic placement of small, surgical clips to the neck of the lesion. Thus, the aneurysm becomes isolated from the normal circulation without damaging adjacent vessels or their branches and shrinks in size to become undetectable, a process known as aneurysm obliteration.
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Select comparative data from 1999 to 2006 include a decrease of 14 percent in the number of neurosurgeons in private practice and a decrease of 13 percent in the number of neurosurgeons in solo practice.
From: AANS
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