Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra, Serdang, Malaysia
  • 2 Department of Imaging, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Level 3, 43400, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia. msf.mdnoh@gmail.com
BMC Neurol, 2017 Aug 25;17(1):165.
PMID: 28841841 DOI: 10.1186/s12883-017-0944-9

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Non-traumatic, spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage occurs in approximately 85% of cases where there is a ruptured saccular aneurysm. An additional 10% of cases arise from non-aneurysmal peri-mesencephalic hemorrhages.

CASE PRESENTATION: We report a rare case of a young female, with underlying Evans syndrome, who was initially thought to have non-hemorrhagic stroke, eventually diagnosed having isolated non-traumatic, non-aneurysmal convexal subarachnoid haemorrhage.

CONCLUSIONS: Spontaneous non-traumatic, non-aneurysmal convexal subarachnoid hemorrhage is a rare entity - of which there are multiple possible etiologies.

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