Hodes J E, Fletcher W A, Goodman D F, Hoyt W F
Department of Neurological Surgery, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco.
J Neurosurg. 1988 Oct;69(4):617-9. doi: 10.3171/jns.1988.69.4.0617.
Aneurysms of the intracavernous portion of the internal carotid artery may become very large, but they very rarely rupture. A case is described in which rupture of such a lesion resulted in a lethal massive subdural hematoma with transtentorial herniation. This is the second reported case of substantiated intracranial rupture from a wholly intracavernous carotid artery aneurysm.