title: Giant serpentine aneurysm with acute spontaneous complete thrombosis.
abstract: We report a case of a giant serpentine aneurysm (GSA) of the middle cerebral artery (MCA) that underwent complete spontaneous thrombosis after angiography. The patient was a 24-year-old man who had an acute headache. CT and MR examinations revealed a large partially thrombosed aneurysm of the MCA with residual flow in the artery. Angiography demonstrated a GSA arising from the left MCA. Thirteen days later, a second angiography showed complete thrombosis of the aneurysm.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Karadeniz Technical University Faculty of Medicine, Trabzon, Turkey.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sari
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kandemir
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kuzeyli
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Dinc
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D002532:Intracranial Aneurysm / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D020767:Intracranial Thrombosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed