Medical Must-See: Tooth pain and a golf ball–sized aneurysm

The aneurysm was too large for standard surgical repair.
Left: A giant wide necked brain aneurysm; right: healed aneurysm secondary to treatment with the flow diverting stent. Photo: Michigan Medicine.

A 70-year-old’s tooth pain has led US doctors to discover a giant brain aneurysm behind the patient’s eye.

After a first attempt at surgical repair was unsuccessful, doctors at the University of Michigan attempted a five-hour flow diversion embolisation.