Spontaneous partial thrombosis of a basilar artery giant aneurysm in a child

Elisa F M Ciceri; Alison L Lawhead; Tiziana De Simone; Luca Valvassori; Edoardo Boccardi

Spontaneous partial thrombosis of a basilar artery giant aneurysm in a child

AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2005 Jan;26(1):56-7.

Authors

Elisa F M Ciceri¹, Alison L Lawhead, Tiziana De Simone, Luca Valvassori, Edoardo Boccardi

Affiliation

¹ Department of Neuroradiology, Istituto Nazionale Neurologico "Carlo Besta", Milan, Italy.

PMID: 15661700
PMCID: PMC7975018

Abstract

We report the complete, spontaneous obliteration of a partially thrombosed dissecting giant aneurysm in the basilar artery by occlusion of both the lumen of the aneurysm and the parent artery in a 15-year-old girl.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Angiography, Digital Subtraction*
Aortic Dissection / diagnosis*
Brain Ischemia / diagnosis
Cerebellum / blood supply
Cerebral Angiography*
Collateral Circulation / physiology
Disease Progression
Female
Follow-Up Studies
Humans
Image Processing, Computer-Assisted*
Intracranial Aneurysm / diagnosis*
Intracranial Embolism / diagnosis*
Magnetic Resonance Angiography*
Pons / blood supply
Remission, Spontaneous
Vertebrobasilar Insufficiency / diagnosis*