Complete asymptomatic thrombosis and resorption of a congenital giant intracranial aneurysm

Case report

Hilmar Krapf M.D.1, Martin Schöning M.D.1, Dirk Petersen M.D.1, and Wilhelm Küker M.D.1
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  • 1 Departments of Neuroradiology and Neuropediatrics, University of Tübingen; and Department of Neuroradiology, University of Lübeck, Germany
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✓ Intracranial aneurysms in infants are rare, but are associated with a high risk of rupture and subarachnoid hemorrhage. The authors report a case of an incidentally diagnosed, probably congenital, asymptomatic giant aneurysm of the posterior communicating artery in a 9-month-old girl, which completely thrombosed following a diagnostic superselective angiography without any neuropathological incident. Follow-up magnetic resonance imaging revealed that the aneurysm decreased further in size and was largely resorbed within 3 years after the initial finding. In single cases the natural history of congenital giant aneurysms may be better than previously assumed.

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