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ArticleAsian journal of neurosurgery

Spontaneous Disappearance of an Intracranial Small Unruptured Aneurysm on Magnetic Resonance Angiography: Report of Two Cases.

Yu Akimoto, Kiyoyuki Yanaka, Kuniyuki Onuma, Kazuhiro Nakamura, Nobuyuki Takahashi, Eiichi Ishikawa

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Article in Asian journal of neurosurgery. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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Yu AkimotoDepartment of Neurosurgery, Tsukuba Memorial Hospital, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
Kiyoyuki YanakaDepartment of Neurosurgery, Tsukuba Memorial Hospital, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
Kuniyuki OnumaDepartment of Neurosurgery, Tsukuba Memorial Hospital, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
Kazuhiro NakamuraDepartment of Neurosurgery, Tsukuba Memorial Hospital, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
Nobuyuki TakahashiDepartment of Radiology, Tsukuba Memorial Hospital, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
Eiichi IshikawaDepartment of Neurosurgery, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Spontaneous radiographic disappearance of cerebral aneurysms is often observed under special conditions such as giant aneurysms. However, spontaneous disappearance of an unruptured and nongiant intracranial saccular aneurysms is rare. We describe two cases of this rare vascular phenomenon. The first patient is a 64-year-old female diagnosed with a small unruptured aneurysm arising from the distal anterior cerebral artery. Spontaneous disappearance of the aneurysm on magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) was observed 5 years after the initial diagnosis. Continuous imaging surveillance also revealed spontaneous reappearance of the aneurysm 2 years later. The second patient is a 57-year-old female harboring a small unruptured saccular aneurysm arising from the M1-M2 bifurcation of the middle cerebral artery. The aneurysm showed spontaneous disappearance on MRA 13 years after the initial diagnosis. These cases provide a new insight into this natural dynamic process even in cases of a small unruptured intracranial saccular aneurysm.

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PMID33708689
PMCPMC7869282

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