Baldi Sebastian, Mounayer Charbel, Piotin Michel, Spelle Laurent, Moret Jacques
Department of Interventional Neuroradiology, Fondation Rothschild, 25-29 rue Manin, 75940 Paris Cedex 19, France.
AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2003 Jun-Jul;24(6):1222-5.
Two types of balloon are usually employed to perform balloon-assisted coil placement in cerebral aneurysms: oval, guide-dependent balloons for sidewall aneurysms and round balloons for bifurcation aneurysms. We report on the use of a new, more compliant, guide-dependent oval balloon microcatheter to seal wide-neck bifurcation aneurysms with coils during endovascular occlusion.