"Kissing" bilateral large carotid-ophthalmic aneurysms - A case report

A case of unruptured bilateral large carotid-ophthalmic aneurysms, which ap pear to be adjoining and "kissing" each other when visualized by three-dime nsional computed tomographic angiography (3-D CTA), is reported. Although b ilateral carotid-ophthalmic aneurysms are not rare, bilateral large ones ar e quite rare, and direct imaging of "kissing aneurysms" of this portion has not been reported. Since 3-D CTA is becoming a useful tool for the diagnos is of cerebral aneurysms, we propose that these and similar bilateral large carotid-ophthalmic aneurysms are good candidates for the term "kissing ane urysms".