Aneurisma gigante no traumático de la arteria meníngea media. A propósito de un caso y revisión de la literatura
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Darío Gándara; Francisco Martínez-Ricarte; Jordi Vilalta; Fuat Arikan; Elena Martínez-Sáez
- Source
- Neurocirugía. 29:250-254
- Subject
- Chronic bronchitis
medicine.medical_specialty
Cirrhosis
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
medicine.medical_treatment
Middle meningeal artery
Liver transplantation
medicine.disease
030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging
Surgery
Lesion
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Aneurysm
medicine.artery
Angiography
Medicine
cardiovascular diseases
Neurology (clinical)
medicine.symptom
business
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Craniotomy
- Language
- ISSN
- 1130-1473
A case of a non-traumatic giant aneurysm of the middle meningeal artery is presented in a 59-year-old patient with a history of liver transplantation, liver cirrhosis and hepatocarcinoma, chronic renal disease, hypertension and chronic bronchitis who presented with tonic-clonic seizures. CT and MRI showed a lesion suggestive of metastasis without ruling out a glial type tumor. He was operated through a left FT craniotomy. During the surgery there was an arterial hemorrhage. The histological sample oriented toward an aneurysmal origin that was confirmed with ARM and angiography. A second intervention allowed the removal of a giant middle meningeal aneurysm partially thrombosed. Aneurysms of the middle meningeal artery are rare and generally present a traumatic history. No case of giant aneurysm has been found in the medical literature.