title: Endovascular treatment of an adolescent patient with a ruptured intracranial aneurysm - case report and review of literature.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The occurence of aneurysms in young patients, under 18 years of age, is estimated at 0.5-2% of all diagnosed aneurysms.
  
  
  METHODS
  We reported on a case of a 16-year-old patient with subarachnoid hemorrhage diagnosed due to a ruptured cerebral vessel aneurysm. The angio-CT revealed an aneurysm of the middle cerebral artery, in its distal branch. An ad hoc coil embolization was performed with angiographic success. After 6 months following the ictus, the patient underwent a control angiography which confirmed total occlusion of the aneurysm with no residual inflow. Clinical examination revealed no neurological deficits and the patient was rated 0 in mRS (modified Rankin Scale).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In experienced departments of interventional neuroradiology the endovascular treatment should be the treatment of choice.
authors.affiliation: Department of General and Interventional Radiology, Poznań University of Medical Sciences, Poznań, Poland.
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Juszkat
authors.affiliation: Department of General and Interventional Radiology, Poznań University of Medical Sciences, Poznań, Poland.
authors.forename: Katarzyna
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Jończyk-Potoczna
authors.affiliation: Department of General and Interventional Radiology, Poznań University of Medical Sciences, Poznań, Poland.
authors.forename: Katarzyna
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Stanisławska
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Anesthesiology and Intensive Therapy, Poznań University of Medical Sciences, Poznań, Poland.
authors.forename: Alicja
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bartkowska-Śniatkowska
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Anesthesiology and Intensive Therapy, Poznań University of Medical Sciences, Poznań, Poland.
authors.forename: Jowita
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rosada-Kurasińska
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery and Neurotraumatology, Poznań University of Medical Sciences, Poznań, Poland.
authors.forename: Włodziemierz
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Liebert
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery and Neurotraumatology, Poznań University of Medical Sciences, Poznań, Poland.
authors.forename: Jakub
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Moskal
keywords: Embolization, Therapeutic; Intracranial Aneurysm; Pediatrics; Subarachnoid Hemorrhage