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We hereby describe an unusual RM case variant, presenting to us with lethal subarachnoid haemorrhage owing to a ruptured small aneurysm associated with the RM network. Angiography disclosed an absent P1 segment of the posterior cerebral artery (PCA) and an RM network anastomosing the basilar apex with the normal distal PCA. Brain death was confirmed on the fifth day after admission and attributed to the severity of subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH). This is an exceedingly rare case representing an intradural-to-intradural RM anastomosis in a patient presenting with lethal SAH. 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