FAMILIAL OCCURRENCE OF BERRY ANEURYSM
FAMILIAL OCCURRENCE OF BERRY ANEURYSM
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DOI:
10.1136/jnnp.31.4.399
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发表时间:
1968-01-01
影响因子:
11
通讯作者:
BEUMONT, PJV
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作者:
BEUMONT, PJV
In 1954 Chambers, Harper, and Simpson wrote'that there may be a familial factor in the occurrence of intracerebral aneurysm is a possibility that has not been advanced, to the knowledge of the authors'. However, O'Brien in 1942 had reported a case of middle cerebral aneurysm in a man whose twin brother had died eight years previously under conditions strongly suggestive of subarachnoid haemorrhage. A similar pair of identical twins was described by Jokl and Wolffe (1954). Since1954 several reports of intracranial aneurysm inmore than one member of a family have been published. The purpose of this paper is to present a family in which three members have had congenital intracranial vascular lesions. The case histories and re-levant radiological findings of three sisters will be given. In two of these cases rupture of an intracranial aneurysm occurred at approximately the same time in life. In the third case, considerably younger, an angioma with an associated aneurysm was discovered incidentally during the course of a psychiatric illness. Reference will be made to those instances of intracranial aneurysm occurring in more than one member of a family that have been cited in the English language literature.