Internal carotid artery aneurysm classification
Nurminen et al. identified all consecutive patients with internal carotid artery aneurysms that were treated with flow-diverter stents and divided the aneurysms into two anatomic subgroups (cavernous and supraclinoid segments) 1).
Cavernous Internal Carotid Artery Aneurysm
Supraclinoid
Internal carotid artery bifurcation aneurysm.
Internal carotid artery ophthalmic artery aneurysm.
Size
Rupture
Extracranial internal carotid artery aneurysm
1)
Nurminen V, Raj R, Numminen J, Kivisaari R, Niemelä M, Lehecka M. Flow
diversion for internal carotid artery aneurysms: Impact of complex aneurysm
features and overview of outcome. Clin Neurol Neurosurg. 2020 Mar 19;193:105782.
doi: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2020.105782. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 32200219.