title: Endovascular treatment of sigmoid sinus aneurysm presenting as devastating pulsatile tinnitus. A case report and review of literature.
abstract: Pulsatile tinnitus is a rare yet potentially disabling symptom that can have either vascular or nonvascular etiologies. A recently described vascular cause is an aneurysm of dural venous sinuses. To our knowledge, eight of such cases have been published, five of which were treated surgically and three by endovascular approach. We describe one additional case treated successfully by endovascular coiling and review the current data on this subject.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA. mehanna@bcm.tmc.edu
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mehanna
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Shaltoni
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Morsi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mawad
mesh_terms: D002550:Cerebral Veins / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D003392:Cranial Sinuses / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D002532:Intracranial Aneurysm / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011859:Radiography; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D014012:Tinnitus / Q000209:etiology*