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Twin-like appearance of an unruptured intracerebral anterior communicating artery (ACom) aneurysm in a male sibling of a patient with a ruptured ACom aneurysm.
Acta neurochirurgica - 1 Jun 2016
Fierstra Jorn, Burkhardt Jan Karl, Stamou Stamatios, Regli Luca, Bozinov Oliver
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Increased risk of intracranial aneurysm rupture with subsequent subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH) is related to several possible factors, including first-grade familial aneurysms. METHODS AND RESULTS: Here we present a case of one ruptured and one unruptured identical twin-like anterior communicating artery (ACom) aneurysm present in two male siblings, without any proven genetic predisposition. According...
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