Ruptured Distal Superior Cerebellar Artery Aneurysm After Gamma Knife Radiosurgery for Trigeminal Neuralgia: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Intracranial aneurysm formation after Gamma Knife radiosurgery (GKRS) is a rare complication that has only recently been reported in the literature. We report the case of a fatal distal superior cerebellar artery (SCA) aneurysm rupture in a woman treated twice with GKRS for trigeminal neuralgia along with a review of the literature regarding radiation-induced aneurysms. A 77-year-old white woman with a history of refractory right-sided...