Ruptured posterior cerebral artery aneurysm in association with neurofibromatosis type 2 – A case report
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Ashis Pathak; Navneet Singla; Alok Umredkar; Sandeep Mohindra
- Source
- British Journal of Neurosurgery. 25:322-323
- Subject
- Adult
Neurofibromatosis 2
medicine.medical_specialty
Hearing Loss, Sensorineural
Middle meningeal artery
Neuropathology
Aneurysm, Ruptured
Fatal Outcome
Aneurysm
medicine.artery
medicine
Humans
In patient
cardiovascular diseases
Neurofibromatosis
Neurofibromatosis type 2
business.industry
Intracranial Aneurysm
Neuroma, Acoustic
General Medicine
medicine.disease
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Surgery
Merlin (protein)
Vestibular Diseases
cardiovascular system
Posterior Cerebral Artery Aneurysm
Female
Neurology (clinical)
business
- Language
- ISSN
- 1360-046X
0268-8697
Intracranial aneurysms have been described in patients with Neurofibromatosis (NF)- 1, but not with NF-2 apart from one instance of a middle meningeal artery aneurysm (Louis DN, Ramesh V, Gusella JF. Neuropathology and molecular genetics of neurofibromatosis 2 and related tumors.1 We report a case of NF-2 and ruptured posterior cerebral artery aneurysm.