title: Amyloid angiopathy-related cerebellar hemorrhage.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The posterior fossa localization of amyloid angiopathy-related hemorrhage is very unusual. Less than 10 cases have been previously reported. Surgical management of amyloid angiopathy-related hemorrhage is the subject of controversy.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Typical aspects of amyloid angiopathy were found within the surgically removed biopsies of 71-year-old nonhypertensive, nondemented woman suffering cerebellar hemorrhage.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Amyloid angiopathy-related hemorrhage could occur in the cerebellum, and diagnosis might be suspected when no past history of mental deterioration and/or arterial hypertension are present and when angiography rules out vascular malformation. Surgical management seems to have the same restricted indications as in other brain areas.
authors.affiliation: Clinic University of Neurosurgery, Hôpital Pellegrin, Bordeaux, France.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Cuny
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Loiseau
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rivel
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Vital
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Castel
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002526:Cerebellar Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D016657:Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D002543:Cerebral Hemorrhage / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed