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Bypass & flow reversal is a powerful strategy for treating giant aneurysms: it deals w/their unclippability; uses natural thrombosis to close the aneurysm completely; indicates some fancy & fun bypasses, like this side-to-side bypass w/ant. temporal artery (ATA-M2 MCA) + STA-MCA…

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