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Intracranial oncotic aneurysms are very rare. Only twelve reported cases were from choriocarcinoma. We present a new case with two aneurysms disappearing after chemotherapy, the second in the literature but the first case with persistence of all arteries.
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Hove, B., Andersen, B.B. & Christiansen, T.M. Intracranial oncotic aneurysms from choriocarcinoma. Neuroradiology 32, 526–528 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02426472
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