Double-barrel extracranial-intracranial bypass surgery followed by endovascular carotid artery occlusion in a patient with an extracranial giant internal carotid artery aneurysm due to Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.

Objective: In this case report we describe a successful interdisciplinary approach (including flow redirection and endovascular occlusion) applied to a patient with a continuously growing extracranial giant aneurysm of the right internal carotid artery (ICA) due to known Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.

Case Presentation: A 42-year-old man with a continuously growing extracranial giant aneurysm of the right ICA sought treatment after failed surgery of a similar lesion of the left ICA. A multidisciplinary consultation was held at the end of 2008.