Diverticulum of Lateral Ventricle Trigone in Communicating Hydrocephalus

[Lateral ventricle diverticulum as a variant of hydrocephalus evolution].

A clinical case of a 12 year-old girl with hydrocephalus complicated by rare condition, lateral ventricular diverticulum, is reported. Progression of the diverticulum was followed up according to MRI. The diverticulum of the lateral ventricular wall has emerged in the interval of 1 year (14 months have passed between the two MRI examinations) and spread towards the quadrigeminal cistern. In add...

Hydrocephalus related to pulsion diverticulum of lateral ventricle.

Non-Communicating Hydrocephalus

Figure 1. Hydrocephalus with enlarged lateral and third ventricles on computed tomography. A 28-year-old male presented to the emergency department with acute onset of confusion, slurred speech, disequilibrium, and right-sided facial droop. He had no headache, fever, chills, recent trauma, recent travel, or similar symptoms in the past. He was previously healthy with no history of drug, alcohol...

Communicating Hydrocephalus and Dementia

This case is of a 52 year old single woman with memory problems. CT scan reveals communicating hydrocephalus and MRI seen by neuroradiology deems it to be a chronic process. Patient is HIV negative. Has a steady gait and can go to the bathroom on her own. In CPEP she had auditory and visual hallucinations. Was fairly oriented to self but could not tell minute details such as age or date of birt...

Diverticulum of the Left Ventricle

Congenital diverticulum of the left ventricle of the heart is considered to be a rare malformation. Up to 1958, Keith, Rowe, and Vlad could only collect 13 cases from the published reports. Successful operations had been recorded by Roessler (1944), Skapinker (1951), Potts, DeBoer, and Johnson (1953), and Mustard, Duckworth, Rowe, and Dolan (1958). The purpose of this paper is to present the cl...