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Morphological characteristics were mainly evaluated by 3D CT angiography and included diameter of arteries (anterior cerebral artery, middle cerebral artery, and internal carotid artery), size of the aneurysm, dome-to-neck ratio, neck direction of the aneurysmal dome around the PCoA (medial, lateral, superior, inferior, and posterior), aneurysm bleb formation, whether the PCoA was fetal type, and the existence of other intracranial unruptured aneurysm(s).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec>\n<jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>Patients with ruptured PCoA aneurysms were significantly younger (a higher proportion were &lt; 60 years of age) and a significantly higher proportion of patients with ruptured PCoA aneurysms showed a lateral direction of the aneurysmal dome around the PCoA, had bleb formation, and the aneurysm was &gt; 7 mm in diameter and\/or the dome-to-neck ratio was &gt; 2.0. Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed age &lt; 60 years (OR 4.3, p = 0.011), history of hypertension (OR 5.1, p = 0.008), lateral direction of the aneurysmal dome around the PCoA (OR 6.7, p = 0.0001), and bleb formation (OR 11, p &lt; 0.0001) to be significantly associated with PCoA aneurysm rupture.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec>\n<jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>The present results demonstrated that lateral projection of a PCoA aneurysm may be related to rupture.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3171\/2013.9.jns13921","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2013,10,25]],"date-time":"2013-10-25T14:27:00Z","timestamp":1382711220000},"page":"104-110","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":51,"title":["Morphological and clinical risk factors for posterior communicating artery aneurysm rupture"],"prefix":"10.3171","volume":"120","author":[{"given":"Hidetoshi","family":"Matsukawa","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Departments of 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