Surgically treated cerebral aneurysms in south Trinidad: twenty years experience 1986-2005.

ABSTRACT

INTRODUCTION: For many years the treatment of cerebral aneurysms was surgical - clipping or wrapping. In recent years however, interventional radiology is available with techniques of coiling and stenting. The current treatment of any aneurysm is based on a combination of interventional and surgical techniques and in many cases the final treatment is interventional. It may be useful to document surgically treated aneurysms at San Fernando General Hospital serving a population area of half million in south Trinidad in the twenty years 1986-2005 before the advent of interventional radiology in Trinidad which became available in late 2005