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A 66-year-old man presented with a 6-day history of progressive posterior cervical pain that included lower back pain and fever. Neurological examinations revealed neck stiffness. Computed tomography demonstrated convexity subarachnoid hemorrhage. A spinal T2-weighted image revealed a hypointense signal lesion with contrast enhancement of the intradural extramedullary space at Th12-L1. Digital subtraction angiography showed a fusiform aneurysm with a 10 mm diameter in the artery of Adamkiewicz. We diagnosed the patient's condition as a ruptured aneurysm of the artery of Adamkiewicz. By day 41 the aneurysm had disappeared following conservative treatment. Aneurysms arising from the artery of Adamkiewicz are extremely rare and can cause both convexity and spinal subarachnoid hemorrhages. Clinicians should therefore look for spinal lesions if patients with convexity subarachnoid hemorrhage of an unknown origin have lower back pain as their initial symptom.
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