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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Dec 23.
Published in final edited form as: Neurosurgery. 2011 Dec;69(6):1261–1271. doi: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e31822bb8a6

Table 1.

Location giant aneurysms. Abbreviations: ICA = internal carotid artery; PCoA = posterior communicating artery; MCA = middle cerebral artery; ACoA = anterior communicating artery; PCA = posterior cerebral artery; SCA = superior cerebellar artery; PICA = posterior inferior cerebellar artery.

Anterior Circulation N %
  Cavernous ICA 19 13.5%
  Supraclinoid ICA 18 12.8%
  Ophthalmic 15 10.6%
  Superior Hypophyseal 5 3.5%
  PCoA 5 3.5%
  MCA 23 16.3%
  ACoA 13 9.2%
  Pericallosal 2 1.4%

Posterior Circulation N %

  Basilar Bifurcation 14 9.9%
  PCA 7 5.0%
  SCA 2 1.4%
  Basilar Trunk 9 6.4%
  PICA 4 2.8%
  Vertebral Artery 5 3.5%
Total 141