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Therefore, the objective in the present investigation was to analyze the influence of surgical strategy\u2014specifically, clipping with or without aneurysm dissection\u2014on ONP resolution.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>\n\nMethods<\/jats:title>\nBetween June 1999 and December 2010, 18 consecutive patients with ruptured and unruptured PCoA aneurysms causing ONP were treated at the authors' institution. Oculomotor nerve palsy was evaluated on admission and at follow-up. The electronic database MEDLINE was searched for additional data in published studies of PCoA aneurysms causing ONP. Two reviewers independently extracted data.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>\n\nResults<\/jats:title>\nOverall, 8 studies from the literature review and 6 patients in the current series (121 PCoA aneurysms) met the study inclusion criteria. Ninety-four aneurysms were treated with simple aneurysm neck clipping and 27 with clipping plus aneurysm sac decompression. The surgical strategy, simple aneurysm neck clipping versus clipping plus oculomotor nerve decompression, had no effect on full ONP resolution on univariate (p = 0.5) and multivariate analyses. On multivariate analysis, patients with incomplete ONP at admission were more likely to have full resolution of the palsy than were those with complete ONP at admission (p = 0.03, OR = 4.2, 95% CI 1.1\u201316).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>\n\nConclusions<\/jats:title>\nData in the present study indicated that ONP caused by PCoA aneurysms improves after clipping without and with oculomotor nerve decompression. 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