Posterior Cerebral Artery Pseudoaneurysm, a Rare Complication of Pituitary Tumor Transsphenoidal Surgery: Case Report and Literature Review

Chih Hsun Lee, Shu Mei Chen, Tai Ngar Lui

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摘要

Endoscopic endonasal transsphenoidal surgery for pituitary tumors has been the standard therapy for decades. This approach offers surgeons an effective, safe, and wide exposure to the pituitary gland, with a relatively low mortality rate and acceptable complication rates. However, severe complications, including cerebrospinal fistula, meningitis, neural component injury, and vascular injury, may occur. One of the most common and severe complications is carotid artery injury; however, only 2 posterior cerebral artery injuries with pseudoaneurysm formation have been reported previously. One of them received bypass surgery and recovered well, but the other received endovascular treatment and died of intracranial hypertension. Herein, we report a rare case of iatrogenic pseudoaneurysm formation with hemorrhage after transsphenoidal surgery, in which tumor traction-related adjacent vessel injury was most likely. Aneurysm clipping, vascular bypass, and embolization are considered reasonable choices depending on the patient's condition for iatrogenic aneurysm formation. In our case, no surgical or endovascular intervention was performed, and the aneurysm healed spontaneously 3 weeks later.

原文英語
頁(從 - 到)1493E1-1493E3
期刊World Neurosurgery
84
發行號5
DOIs
出版狀態已發佈 - 11月 1 2015

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • 神經病學(臨床)
  • 手術

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