title: Rebleeding from intracranial dissecting aneurysm in the vertebral artery.
abstract: We describe two patients with rebleeding from intracranial vertebral artery dissecting aneurysms during the acute stage. One patient had excellent results after emergency surgery. A review of recent reports including 60 patients with this disorder revealed a rebleeding rate of 30%, mostly during the acute stage. This suggests that a ruptured dissecting aneurysm in the vertebral artery is at risk for rebleeding during the acute stage, similar to a saccular aneurysm in the same location.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Tokyo Metropolitan Fuchu Hospital, Japan.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Aoki
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sakai
mesh_terms: D000784:Aortic Dissection / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology*; D002533:Cerebral Angiography; D002543:Cerebral Hemorrhage / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D002532:Intracranial Aneurysm / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014711:Vertebral Artery