Emergency microsurgical trapping, decompression, and revascularization of a middle cerebral artery dissecting aneurysm using a minipterional approach in a pediatric patient: illustrative case

BACKGROUND: Pediatric intracranial aneurysms present unique diagnostic and therapeutic challenges due to their rarity and their distinct anatomical and physiological considerations compared with those of adult intracranial aneurysms. The authors present the case of a symptomatic pediatric patient who required emergency microsurgical treatment after a thrombosed dissecting aneurysm was identified in the right M1 segment of the middle cerebral …