Multiple Cerebral Aneurysms and Cardiac Myxoma

Abstract

INTRACRANIAL aneurysms of peripheral cerebral arteries are rare. If trauma is not a consideration^{1 2 3 4 5} emboli or a local inflammatory process should be regarded as possible. In the nineteenth century it was believed that all intracranial aneurysms were due to septic (usually termed "niycotic"†) emboli.⁶ The case presented appears to be the first in which a metastatic tumor embolus has been implicated in the production of a cerebral aneurysm.Case ReportS.G., a 41-year-old woman, began to experience transient episodes of difficulty with speech, memory and temperament, as well as numbness and tingling of the right hand and occasional left-sided headache . . .