The authors described two cases with primitive trigeminal artery. Case 1 was a 32-year-old woman who suffered dizziness and a serious pulsatile intracranial bruit on the left ear, and sometimes associated with pulsatile intracranial bearing-pain on the left temporal side six months before she was admitted to the hospital. She also suffered from obvious diplopia on left lateral gaze for the last 5 months. She had suffered no recent trauma. Magnetic resonance imaging(MRI) demonstrated a suspected intracranial aneurysm located in left cavernous sinus. Digital subtraction angiography (DSA) was performed and a primitive trigeminal artery-cavernous sinus fistula in left side was found. Intraluminal occlusion of the fistula was successfully performed immediately after angiography using 6 Guglielmi detachable coils (GDC), and the patient was cured finally. Case 2 was a 28-year-old woman who suffered a serious intermittent cephalodynia associated with soreness on the left body two years before she was admitted to the hospital. She had suffered no recent trauma. Magnetic resonance angiography(MRA) demonstrated a suspected intracavernous aneurysm of the right internal carotid artery, Digital subtraction angiography (DSA) was performed. Right internal carotid angiography showed a primitive trigeminal artery (PTA) run between the cavernous segment of the internal carotid artery and the distal portion of the basilar artery. On initiation of PTA of R-ICA a small wide-necked saccular aneurysm was incidentally visualized. The aneurysm was successfully embolized after angiography using 2 Stent (Neuroform, 4.5mmm × 20mmm)-assisted detachable coils (Matrix), the ICA and PTA were preserved, and the patient was cured finally.

Objective.To summarize the experience of minimally invasive treatment in 520 patients with intracranial aneurysms on a retrospective study.Methods.The measures used in the treatment of 520 patients were reviewed in terms of timing of surgery,induced hypotensive anesthesia,brain protection combined with temporal occlusion of the feeding artery,external drainage of CSF,dynamic monitoring of intracranial pressure,blood flow velocity,serum osmolality and CT scanning,anti vasospasm therapy as well as selected interventional endovascular embolization of aneurysms.Results.Of the 520 patients,485 were treated with either direct clipping or endovascular embolization and 35 patients were treated non surgically.In 449 patients undergoing direct clipping and 36 undergoing endovascular embolization,intraoperative rupture of aneurysm occurred in 27 (6.0%) and 0%,respectively.Death occurred in 13 (2.6%),hemiplegia in 8 (1.6%),and vegetative state in 2 (0.4%).The operative mortality of direct clipping was 3.8% in 210 patients before 1990 and 1.8% in 275 patients after 1990 (36 patients undergoing endovascular embolization,the operative mortality was 0%).Conclusion.The outcome of patients with intracranial aneurysms can be markedly improved and the operative mortality can be lowered by minimally invasive treatment.

An autopsy case of sudden death induced by alimentary tract hemorrhage was presented, which was caused by the unexpected rupture of clinically unrecognized tuberculous abdominal aortic a-neurysm (TAAA). The initial diagnosis was made of the syndrome of coronary heart disease and hyper-tensive disease. The detailed autopsy showed that the alimentary tract hemorrhage was caused by a sud-den rupture of the mass after posture changing was ascertained as the cause of death. The diagnosis of TAAA was determined by the autopsy findings. Analysis for the medical dispute of TAAA was de-scribed, and the difficulty of the diagnosis and medico-legal implications were also discussed.