“…Growth and/or rupture of experimental aneurysms were found in three types of models: sidewall (n = 12) [3,8,[13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22], bifurcation stump (n = 6) [14,[23][24][25][26][27], and terminal (n = 3) [28][29][30]. Most frequent growth was reported in rats (n = 6) [8,14,16,[23][24][25], followed by rabbits (n = 4) [13,21,26,29], dogs (n = 4) [19,27,28,30], swine (n = 5) [3,17,18,20,22], and sheep (n = 1) [15]. Except for two studies reporting growth and rupture within the abdominal cavity (abdominal aortic artery; n = 2) [8,16] all other aneurysms were located at the neck of the animal (common carotid artery; n = 18).…”