Open AccessRuptured Aneurysm of the Posterior Spinal Artery of the Upper Cervical Spinal Cord: Case Report
Author(s) -
Yasunobu Goto,
Yoshinari Kamijyo,
Yasuhiro Yonekawa,
Hiroe Kikuchi
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
neurosurgery/neurosurgery online
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.485
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1081-1281
pISSN - 0148-396X
DOI - 10.1227/00006123-198803000-00019
Subject(s) - medicine , spinal cord , subarachnoid hemorrhage , subarachnoid space , aneurysm , neurosurgery , vertebral artery , arteriovenous malformation , posterior communicating artery , surgery , radiology , cerebrospinal fluid , psychiatry
A case of aneurysm of the posterior spinal artery of the upper cervical spinal cord is presented. The patient had severe intracranial subarachnoid hemorrhage with disturbance of consciousness. Four-vessel angiograms showed neither anomalous arrangement of the arteries nor arteriovenous malformation intracranially or in the spinal subarachnoid space. Operation disclosed a thrombosed aneurysm of the posterior spinal artery, which was radically excised and histologically examined. (Neurosurgery 22:558-560, 1988)