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Department of Neurosurgery Gülhane Medical School Ankara Türkiye A/21-year-old man presented with headache, left hemiparesis and hypertension. Xantochromic cerebrospinal fluid was obtained by lumbar puncture. Aortic coarctation and two aneurysms in the bifurcation of the left internal carotid artery and one in the bifurcation of the right internal carotid artery were detected on angiograms. The patients was operated and three cerebral aneurysms were clipped at the one-stage operation. Coarctation was repaired 5 months later. Literature regarding this combination of anomalies, which is very rare, is reviewed. Keywords : Subarachnoid haemorrhage; Coarctation of the Aorta; Cerebral aneurysms