Aneurysm of Anterior Inferior Cerebellar Artery-posterior Inferior Cerebellar Artery Variant

Khursheed Ahmad Ansari; Girish Menon; Suresh Nair; Mathew Abraham

doi:10.4103/1793-5482.180935

Aneurysm of Anterior Inferior Cerebellar Artery-posterior Inferior Cerebellar Artery Variant

Asian J Neurosurg. 2018 Jan-Mar;13(1):53-55. doi: 10.4103/1793-5482.180935.

Authors

Khursheed Ahmad Ansari¹, Girish Menon², Suresh Nair², Mathew Abraham²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neurosurgery, Wockhardt Hospitals, The Umrao Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, North Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
² Department of Neurosurgery, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum, Kerala, India.

Abstract

Aneurysms arising from anterior inferior cerebellar artery-posterior inferior cerebellar artery (AICA-PICA) variant are extremely rare. They usually present with subarachnoid hemorrhage. This is probably the second case report of a large thrombosed AICA-PICA variant aneurysm presenting as a cerebellopontine angle mass lesion with cranial nerve palsy, managed successfully by surgical clipping.

Keywords: Aneurysm; anterior inferior cerebellar artery; clipping; posterior inferior cerebellar artery.

Publication types

Case Reports