Anterior thoracic intradural arachnoid cysts

Craniospinal intradural arachnoid cyst.

A patient with an uncommonly situated congenital intradural arachnoid cyst is reported. The cyst extended from the cervical spinal canal into the posterior cranial fossa and was posterolateral to the spinal cord. The patient's initial complaint was urinary hesitancy. The location of the cyst is unique and the presenting complaint rare.

Arachnoid Cysts

Arachnoid Cysts

not easily forgotten, and once pictured in the mind's eye by the aid of an accurate description, there can be but little danger that when thereafter encountered they might be mistaken for anything else. Descriptions of such cysts abound in the records of most asylums, and it may be well to open -what I have to say regarding them by quoting a description from the archives of the West Riding Asyl...

Cervical intradural ventral arachnoid cyst resected via anterior corpectomy with reconstruction: a case report.

UNLABELLED Intradural arachnoid cysts are rare lesions that frequently arise posterior to the spinal cord in the thoracic spine region. Those located at the cervical spine level, anterior to the spinal cord are even rarer. The usual treatment of symptomatic intradural spinal cysts involves surgical removal through a posterior approach using a laminectomy or laminotomy. However, ventrally locate...

Intracranial arachnoid cysts.

Intracranial arachnoid cysts constitute 1% of space-occupying lesions in humans.1 The incidence of the condition in dogs is unknown. Only 6 reports describing radiographic findings of 13 affected dogs and 1 cat have been published, but detailed information about the clinical presentation of these patients is lacking.2–7 The present report describes the clinical history, diagnostic findings, and...