Article Text

Download PDFPDF
Bilateral mirror posterior inferior cerebellar artery aneurysms: diagnostic caveat on catheter angiography
  1. Walter S Lesley
  1. Correspondence to Dr W S Lesley, Departments of Radiology, Surgery and Neurosurgery, Division of Neuroradiology, Section of NeuroInterventional Surgery, Texas A&M University Health Sciences Center College of Medicine/Scott and White Clinic, Suite 2X, 2401 South 31st Street, Temple, TX 76508, USA; wlesley{at}swmail.sw.org

Abstract

Only three definitive cases of bilateral mirror proximal posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA) aneurysms have ever been reported. A fourth example is presented where each PICA aneurysm remained angiographically occult on contralateral vertebral artery angiography despite retrograde filling of the parent vessel PICA. Implications for clinical practice are discussed.

  • Artery
  • Brain
  • Aneurysm
  • Coil

Statistics from Altmetric.com

Request Permissions

If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

Footnotes

  • Competing interests None.

  • Patient consent Obtained.

  • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.