H. Kurita et al., DELAYED PARENT ARTERY NARROWING OCCURRING MONTHS AFTER ANEURYSM SURGERY - A COMPLICATION AFTER ANEURYSM SURGERY - TECHNICAL CASE-REPORT, Neurosurgery, 36(6), 1995, pp. 1225-1229
THE AUTHORS REPORT two patients with a rare complication of parent art
ery narrowing that occurred 3 and 6 months after aneurysm surgery. In
both cases, the stenosed arteries had been wrapped around their entire
circumferences with neurosurgical sponge (cotton linter) and coated w
ith plastic adhesive (cyanoacrylate compounds) and the aneurysmal neck
had been clipped. This reinforcement procedure was considered to have
caused the unusual delayed arterial narrowing. The importance of avoi
ding circumferential parent artery wrapping with plastic-adhesive coat
ing is emphasized.