Intramedullary dermoid.

Intramedullary dermoid cyst with relatively atypical symptoms: a case report and review of the literature

BACKGROUND Intraspinal dermoid cysts are rare and benign tumors that occur primarily due to the defective closure of the neural tube, an ectodermal derivative, during the process of development. They are slow-growing tumors manifesting in the second and third decades of life. CASE PRESENTATION We present here a case of a 14-year-old Sindhi boy with a six-month history of paraparesis of the lo...

[Dermoid cyst].

Dermoid Cyst

a Mahomedan male patient, about 50 yeais ol age, who came from the village of Kalupura in the district of Backergatij, to be rid of a large swelling which lie ''ad earned aboot on the right side of liis head, according to him tor the best part of M years. There was nothing of special interest in the past history of the case except a rather vague account of some injury to the head, received when...

Cerebral Dermoid

The classical work on the subject is that of Bostroem,1 published in 1897. More recently the subject of epidermoids and cholesteatomata has been dealt with by Percival Bailey and Horrax in America,2 and by CritchJey and Ferguson3 in this country, but the rarer dermoids have received comparatively little attention. Brock and Klenke,4 however, published in 1931 an account of a case of cerebral de...

A Giant Dermoid Cyst

swelling had been present as long as he could remember, but it was not possible to ascertain with certainty whether or not it was present at birth, that is to say whether it was truly congenital. It had grown slowly and painlessly all his life, but with some increased rapidity during the previous four months. Concealed as it was in the hair (Badagas do not cut the hair of the head), and by the ...