Open AccessDe Novo Saccular Aneurysms
Author(s) -
Basant K. Misra,
Ian R. Whittle,
A. J. W. Steers,
Robin Sellar
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 - 10.1227/00006123-198807000-00002
Subject(s) - medicine , saccular aneurysm , subarachnoid hemorrhage , angiography , aneurysm , carotid arteries , cerebral angiography , cardiology , radiology
The authors report two patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage in whom carotid arteriography revealed aneurysms that had developed at previously normal locations and from infundibula during the years since initial angiography. Neither of these patients had congenital anomalies of the cerebral circulation and, apart from smoking in excess of 30 cigarettes a day, there were no common clinical features. The role of congenital and environmental factors in the formation of aneurysms and the enlargement of infundibula are reviewed.