title: [Complication following embolization of a meningioma].
abstract: This report concerns a 41-year-old female patient with a huge meningioma which was preoperatively embolized with polyvinyl alcohol particles (PVA, 100-300 μm) via the left middle meningeal artery. Dangerous vascular anastomoses were not previously recognized in a superselective angiography. Aphasia and hemiparesis on the right side occurred immediately after the embolization. A cerebral infarct was seen in the region of the left pericallosal artery. The patient applied to the fact-finding board for medical liability and a neuroradiologic opinion was requested. The board came to the conclusion that no incorrect medical treatment had been carried out.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Diagnostische und Interventionelle Neuroradiologie, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Wilseder Weg 25, 30625 Hannover, Deutschland. h575522becker@t-online.de
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Becker
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001037:Aphasia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D016365:Liability, Legal; D019300:Medical Errors; D008577:Meningeal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D008579:Meningioma / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D010291:Paresis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D011859:Radiography; D017211:Treatment Failure