Endovascular Treatment of a Ruptured Aneurysm at a Very Rare Location

Abstract

We describe a patient with a small ruptured azygos anterior cerebral artery aneurysm located at a non-bifurcation distal site on the artery treated successfully with simple coiling.

Keywords

subarachnoid hemorrhage anterior cerebral artery aneurysm

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