Amyloid angiopathy-related cerebellar hemorrhage.
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.
Cuny
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Clinic University of Neurosurgery, Hôpital Pellegrin, Bordeaux, France.
Loiseau
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Rivel
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Vital
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Castel
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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