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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 4.

Published experiences with surgical and endovascular treatment of giant aneurysms.

Author Year Patients Complete Occlusion Bypass Excellent/Good Fair/Poor Mortality Morbidity F/U Retreatment Rehemorrhage
N N % (yrs) % %
Endovascular Coiling
 Higashida 1990 39 63% 63% 0/39 n/a n/a n/a n/a 0.5 n/a n/a
 Gobin 1996 9 5/9 56% 0/9 100% 0% 0% 11% 0.5 33% 0%
 Gruber 1999 28 17/28 61% 0/28 73% 18% 3.3 82% 4%
 Tateshima 2000 10 0/10 0% 0/10 n/a n/a n/a n/a 2.6 20% 20%
 Hallacq 2002 5 1/5 20% 0/5 60% 20% 20% 20% 1.0 0% 0%
 Sluzewski 2003 29 5/29 17% 0/29 75% 4% 21% 10% 3.1 55% 7%
 Henkes 2004 47 10/47 21% 0/47 n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
 Kolasa 2004 7 4/7 57% 0/7 85% 14% 0% n/a n/a n/a n/a
 Murayama 2006 33 19/77 25% 0/33 n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
 Jahromi 2008 39 14/39 36% 0/39 63% 8% 29% 20% 1.3 54% 5%
 Shi 2009 9 9/9 100% 6/9 78% 11% 11% 11% 1.0 0% 0%
 Lylyk 2009 8 4/6 67% 0/8 n/a n/a n/a 0% 0.5 0% 0%
Microsugical Clipping

 Peerless, Drake 1982 118 97/118 82% 0/118 58% 26% 14% n/a n/a n/a n/a
 Kodama, Suzuki 1982 49 n/a n/a n/a 61% 16% 22% n/a n/a n/a n/a
 Yasargil 1984 30 26/30 87% 6/30 67% 23% 10% n/a n/a 0% 3%
 Hosobuchi 1985 82 80/82 98% 15/82 84% 9% 7% 38% 10.0 0% 0%
 Heros 1986 25 25/25 100% n/a 72% 12% 16% n/a n/a n/a n/a
 Sundt 1990 315 310/315 98% 81/315 80% 6% 15% n/a n/a n/a n/a
 Ausman 1990 62 62/62 100% 23/62 84% 11% 5% n/a n/a n/a n/a
 Tamaki 1991 4 4/4 100% 0/4 100% 0% 0% 0% n/a n/a n/a
 Lawton, Spetzler 1995 136 132/136 97% 40/136 85% 9% 6% 11% 2.2 1% 0%
 Shibuya, Sugita 1996 29 n/a n/a n/a 84% 7% 8% n/a n/a n/a n/a
 Kattner 1998 29 29/29 100% 1/29 87% 10% 3% 20% 7.0 0% 0%
 Samson 1999 44 94% 94% n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 0.5 0% 0%
 Osawa 2001 12 n/a n/a 0/12 50% 16% 33% n/a n/a 0% 0%
 Lawton 2002 28 28/28 100% 1/28 75% 11% 14% 5% 1.6 0% 0%
 Jafar 2002 29 29/29 100% 29/29 93% 3% 3% 10% 5.0 0% 0%
 Lozier 2004 19 6/16 38% 2/19 36% 47% 16% 89% 7.4 0% 0%
 Gonzales 2004 8 8/8 100% 1/8 63% 38% 0% 50% 1.0 0% 0%
 Kolasa 2004 13 13/13 100% 0/13 76% 23% 0% n/a n/a n/a n/a
 Krisht 2007 11 11/11 100% 0/11 88% 12% 2% 27% 0.5 0% 0%
 Hauck 2008 62 56/62 90% 9/62 68% 32% 15% 42% 1.0 0% 3%
 Sharma 2008 181 106/118 90% 11/181 86% 5% 9% 12% n/a 0% 0%
 Cantore 2008 99 99/99 100% 41/99 89% 3% 8% 3% 8.5 1% 1%
 Xu 2009 51 51/51 100% 0/51 84% 14% 2% n/a 0.5 n/a n/a
 Sano 2010 109 109/109 100% 0/109 63% 16% 22% 4% n/a 0% 0%
 Current study 2010 140 118/140 84% 52/140 80% 7% 13% 10% 1.9 1% 1%
Combined Endovascular-Surgical Treatment

 Hacein-Bey 1998 5 4/5 80% 1/5 80% 20% 0% 0% 1.9 0% 0%
 Arnautovic 1998 8 8/8 100% 0/8 87% 13% 0% 13% 2.0 0% 0%
 Ponce 2004 8 n/a n/a 5/8 76% 0% 25% 38% 1.5 0% 0%