Successful endovascular occlusion of an aneurysm of the cervical vertebral artery associated with neurofibromatosis-1.
A 30 year old female with a fusiform aneurysm of the cervical vertebral artery causing nerve root compression and associated with neurofibromatosis-1 was successfully treated with endovascular methods which resolved the mass effect. This is the first report demonstrating the reduction of the mass effect of an aneurysm on a cervical nerve root with endovascular treatment by using MR neurography.
Department of Neurosurgery, Nagasaki University School of Medicine, Nagasaki, Japan. nobstanford@gmail.com
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Horie
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Kitagawa
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Nakamoto
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D000328:Adult; D002574:Cervical Vertebrae / Q000098:blood supply*; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009408:Nerve Compression Syndromes / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D009456:Neurofibromatosis 1 / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D009460:Neurologic Examination; D013126:Spinal Nerve Roots / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014711:Vertebral Artery / Q000473:pathology