Erschienen in:
17.12.2016 | Letter to the Editor
Endovascular treatment of giant-dissecting posterior cerebral artery aneurysm in an infant
verfasst von:
Jakob Nemir, David Ozretic, Niko Njiric, Goran Mrak, Marko Rados
Erschienen in:
Child's Nervous System
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Ausgabe 2/2017
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Excerpt
Intracranial aneurysms are extremely rare in the infant age group, with less than 200 cases described in the literature [
1]. The pathogenesis most commonly includes connective tissue disorders, trauma, infection, or spontaneous arterial dissection [
2,
3]. Clinical presentation is mainly due to ischemia, subarachnoid, or intracerebral hemorrhage, as well as mass effect of giant aneurysms, with their occurrence being more common in children than in adults. Asymptomatic, incidental aneurysms in children appear in up to 35% of the cases according to a report by Kakarla et al., while other authors report significantly lower percentages [
4,
5]. We performed a literature review and discovered that there are no reports on incidentally found aneurysms in infants. Herein, we present a case of a 4-month-old male infant with an asymptomatic, posterior cerebral artery aneurysm. …
