Upon surgery to clip my brain aneurysm, the doctor found it to be thick skinned. Is this really an aneurysm?

Question: The aneurysm was found because I had a stroke with all of the symptoms. The doctor who opertated could not tell by the angiogram alone that it was thick skinned. After surgery he told me what he saw.

Does this mean that the abnormality was congenital as opposed to trauma, a viral infection or some other means?

Anyway, I thought that my abnormality really shouldn't be called an aneurysm because although it was an artery with a bulge, the artery wasn't dilated.

Answers:
An aneurysm is a weakening of the vessel wall which causes a bulge. So even if was thick skinned, if it had a bulge it was an aneurysm.

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