Intracranial mycotic aneurysm associated with transsphenoidal surgery to the pituitary adenoma.
A case is reported in which a mycotic aneurysm of the supraclinoidal portion of the internal carotid artery formed as the result of suprasellar infection following transsphenoidal surgery. The source of infection was thought to be a maxillary sinusitis. The aneurysm was treated with systemic antibiotic therapy and disappeared 4 months after the operation. Repeated angiography showed the whole course from the formation to the disappearance of the aneurysm and was valuable in the treatment of intracranial mycotic aneurysms.
Onishi
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Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, Kanazawa University, Japan.
Ito
H
H
Kuroda
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E
Yamamoto
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S
Kubota
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T
D000236:Adenoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D000328:Adult; D002340:Carotid Artery Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D002533:Cerebral Angiography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D002532:Intracranial Aneurysm / Q000209:etiology*; D009181:Mycoses / Q000150:complications*; D010911:Pituitary Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D012086:Reoperation; D013100:Sphenoid Bone / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed