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Delayed diagnosis of intracranial aneurysm in pediatrics: the risk of misdiagnosis—a case report

Initial misdiagnosis of subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) in adults may reach up to 51% of the cases and has serious consequences: 65% of delayed diagnosed aneurysmal SAH suffer rebleeding [8, 10]. It results in severe disability or death for most of patients and represents a major source of malpractice litigation [8, 10]. In pediatric population, the diagnosis of intracranial aneurysms (IA) may be missed even after detection of SAH. We describe an atypical case of aneurysm misdiagnosed as traumatic brain injury (TBI).

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