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Case Reports
. 2000 Jun;28(6):561-7.

[Spontaneous occlusion of a dissecting aneurysm in the shape of "two dumplings on a skewer" at righ posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA): report of a case and neuroradiological findings]

[Article in Japanese]
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Case Reports

[Spontaneous occlusion of a dissecting aneurysm in the shape of "two dumplings on a skewer" at righ posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA): report of a case and neuroradiological findings]

[Article in Japanese]
K Suzukawa et al. No Shinkei Geka. 2000 Jun.

Abstract

We present a case of a spontaneous dissecting aneurysm at the vertebrobasilar artery including the right PICA in a 44-year-old man, who suffered from headache, hiccup and ataxic gait. The arteriograms showed an irregular narrowing and dilatation in the right PICA and in the vertebrobasilar artery, and showed fusiform dilatations in the bilateral middle cerebral arteries. We observed intramural hematoma and true lumen at the right PICA dissecting aneurysm on T1-weighted images on magnetic resonance imaging (1.5T, MRI), and the intimal flap was enhanced on T1-weighted image after intravenous injection of Gd-DTPA. The shape of the intramural hematoma showed a unique "two dumplings on a skewer" appearance, and the intensity of its hematoma in the false lumen decreased in gradient from adventitia to intimal flap on T1-weighted image on MRI. The dissecting aneurysm of the PICA was occluded spontaneously 1 month later, and it caused cerebellar infarction. However, the patient has been left only with the symptom of slight trunkal ataxia. Various shapes of intramural hematomas on MRI have been reported by Kitanaka in association with intracranial vertebrobasilar dissections. We suggest that "two dumplings on a skewer" shape which corresponds to the flow void of the true lumen, accompanied by intramural hematoma and enhanced intimal flap, on contrast-enhanced T1-weighted image, should be regarded as a true "diagnostic sign" of a dissecting aneurysm.

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