Intracranial saccular aneurysm in a child with only persistent headache

J Child Neurol. 2015 Jun;30(7):916-8. doi: 10.1177/0883073814544362. Epub 2014 Aug 24.

Abstract

Headache is one of the common symptoms of intracranial aneursym. A 5-year-old child lately presented to our pediatric emergency department with persistent headache. Brain magnetic resonance imaging revealed a 7×8 mm rounded lesion with slowly heterogeneous low signal in T2 sequence consistent with a partial occluded aneurysm, in the right medial frontal lobe that close to anterior cerebral artery. Intracranial aneurysms are rare in children and they are noncommon without complications as our case.

Keywords: aneurysm; child; headache.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Anterior Cerebral Artery / pathology
  • Brain / pathology
  • Cerebral Angiography
  • Child, Preschool
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Headache / diagnosis*
  • Headache / etiology*
  • Headache / pathology
  • Humans
  • Intracranial Aneurysm / complications*
  • Intracranial Aneurysm / diagnosis*
  • Intracranial Aneurysm / pathology
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male