A CASE OF SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE DUE TO INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM

Abstract

The patient was a 69 year -old housewife who was admitted to our hospital with chief complaints of headache and stupor.
The patient has been known to have high blood pressur since 67 years old.
On the ninth hospital day the both eyes were deviaced upward and its movements were limited downward and to the left, the tongue deviated toward the left side on protrusion.
Examination of the nervous system disclosed the paralysis of oculomotor nerve and hypoglossal narve. The tendon reflexes were symmetrically diminisched in the legs, and a bilateral Babinski sign was elicited.
During the two months of this hospitalization the patient remained stupor or comatos. She died and was diagnosed subarachnoid cerebroventricular hemorrhage at autopsy, and it was definded that a ruptured aneurysm of the right posterior communicating artery has been presented.