CASE REPORTS   

Journal of Neurosurgical Sciences 1998 June;42(2):115-8

Copyright © 1998 EDIZIONI MINERVA MEDICA

language: English

Spontaneous healing of cerebral aneurysm at the beginning of left posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA). Case report

De Luca G. P. ¹, Volpin L. ¹, Colombo F. ¹, Fornezza U. ¹, Pinna V. ²

¹ Division of Neurosurgery, Vicenza City Hospital, Vicenza, Italy; ² Institute of Neuroradiology, Vicenza City Hospital, Vicenza, Italy

We ­present the clin­i­cal and neu­ro­ra­dio­log­i­cal fea­tures of a rup­tured aneu­rysm at the begin­ning of the left PICA suf­fer­ing from sub­arach­noid hem­or­rhage (SAH). The young ­patient ­refused sur­gery, endo­vas­cu­lar treat­ment and also fol­low-up. After 4 and 5 years she repeat­ed the left ver­te­bral angio­gra­phy that ­showed a spon­ta­ne­ous throm­bo­sis of the aneu­rysm. After 8 years MR angio­gram imag­es con­firmed the total oblit­er­a­tion of the aneu­rysm.