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A 48 year-old woman developed headaches followed by spells of intermittent double vision and facial numbness. |
| Basilar Artery Aneurysm. Cerebral angiogram; Left vertebral artery injection. (Left) Lateral view; (Right) AP view. Note the large fusiform aneurysm of both the vertebral and distal basilar arteries. Although aneurysms typically come to clinical attention when they bleed, rarely they enlarge resulting in mass effect with focal neurological signs. AICA = anterior inferior cerebellar artery, PCA = posterior cerebral artery. |
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11/29/06.
Copyrighted 2006. David C Preston