Intracranial Aneurysm in a Four-Week-Old Infant

Jones, R. K.; Shearburn, Edwin W.

doi:10.3171/jns.1961.18.1.0122

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“…The incidence of aneurysms in these arteriosclerotic patients is low. It is recognized that the basic defect in the causation of 'berry' aneurysms of the circle of Willis is a maldevelopment of the embryonic vasculature resulting in a deficiency of the elastic layer at the bifurcation of a vessel (Forbus, 1930;Bremer, 1943;Padget, 1944 reports of the occurrence of cerebral aneurysms in children (Newcomb and Munns, 1949;Jones and Shearburn, 1961;Garcia-Chavez and Moossy, 1965) and the absence of the elastic layer in the wall of the aneurysm (Sugar, 1951). The finding ofthese congenital lesionsin more than one member of a family raises the questions concerning the role of genetic factors in their causation.…”

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The familial incidence of intracranial aneurysms.

Vk¹,

Gleadhill²,

Bailey³

1970

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry

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The familial incidence of intracranial aneurysms.

Vk¹,

Gleadhill²,

Bailey³

1970

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry

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“…Only a few additional cases have been reported [13,32,50] since the recent review of the literature noted above found 131 cases of aneurysms in infants less than 12 months old from 1943 to 2006 [1]. The actual incidence of aneurysms in infants is unknown.…”

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“…The incidence of pediatric intracerebral aneurysms is 0.17–4% of all cases [1,2,3,4,5,6]. Only 131 cases of cerebral aneurysms have been reported in infants younger than 12 months [3,5,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20]. Likewise, there are very few case series reporting dural arteriovenous fistulae (DAVF) in this population.…”

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An Intracranial Aneurysm and Dural Arteriovenous Fistula in a Newborn

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The authors present the case of a newborn with an intracerebral aneurysm and a dural arteriovenous fistula. The patient initially presented with intraventricular hemorrhage and hydrocephalus, with evidence of remote subarachnoid hemorrhage, left hemispheric stroke, and sagittal sinus thrombosis. He was treated with a ventriculoperitoneal shunt and subsequent staged endovascular obliteration of both the aneurysm and fistula. Interestingly, the aneurysm did not appear on an artery feeding the abnormal fistula. Intracerebral aneurysms in the neonatal population are rare, and dural arteriovenous fistulae even more so; we present a case of a 2-month-old infant with both, as well as a review of the literature concerning these rare vascular abnormalities.

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“…The clinical presentation of intracranial aneurysm in neonates is extremely variable and includes irritability, vomiting, seizures, apnea, proptosis, ptosis and cyanosis [6,7,8,9,10,11, 13, 16, 17,19,20,21,22,23,24]. These could account for the frequent misdiagnosis of this condition in the neonatal age group and could explain the terminal outcome in 5 of the reported cases of neonatal aneurysms in whom the diagnosis was made after death [13, 15, 17, 20].…”

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“…Their occurrence in the neonatal age group (up to 28 days) is exceptional, with only 20cases being reported in the literature as per an extensive review by the authors [6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24]. However, no case of spontaneous resolution of a giant intracranial cavernous segment internal carotid artery (ICA) aneurysm in a neonate is reported till date.…”

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Spontaneous Thrombosis of Giant Cavernous Internal Carotid Artery Aneurysm in a Neonate

et al. 2008

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Neonatal intracranial aneurysms are rare, with only 20cases being reported in the literature. No case of spontaneous resolution of a giant intracranial cavernous segment aneurysm in a neonate is reported till date. The authors describe a 3-week-old male child who presented with a left-sided tonic seizure episode and was diagnosed as having a right-sided giant cavernous internal carotid artery aneurysm. The aneurysm was found to be totally thrombosed on angiography done before planning definitive treatment. The child is doing well at 2 years of follow-up. Spontaneous thrombosis, an exceptionally rare but fortunate outcome in a rare case of giant neonatal internal carotid artery aneurysm, has led the authors to report this case. The need of repeat imaging or angiography should be considered to rule out this rare outcome, more so if there is any delay between the ictus and treatment.

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Intracranial Aneurysm in a Four-Week-Old Infant

Cited by 63 publications

References 10 publications

The familial incidence of intracranial aneurysms.

The familial incidence of intracranial aneurysms.

An Intracranial Aneurysm and Dural Arteriovenous Fistula in a Newborn

Spontaneous Thrombosis of Giant Cavernous Internal Carotid Artery Aneurysm in a Neonate

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