OC07.05: Prenatal diagnosis of arachnoid cysts: MRI features and neurodevelopmental outcome

Pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment of spinal meningoceles and arachnoid cysts

Surgical management of intracranial arachnoid cysts: clinical and radiological outcome.

AIM Intracranial arachnoid cysts account for 1% of all intracranial mass lesions and may require drainage if symptomatic. MATERIAL AND METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 45 consecutive patients who underwent surgical drainage for symptomatic intracranial cysts at our institution from January 2000 to January 2010. The average age of our patients was 36.2 years; 26 were ...

Arachnoid Cysts

Spinal extradural arachnoid cysts: clinical, radiological, and surgical features.

Extradural arachnoid cysts in the spine are rare and are seldom a cause of spinal cord compression. They are thought to arise from congenital defects in the dura mater, and they almost always communicate with the intrathecal subarachnoid space through a small defect in the dura. The mainstay of treatment in patients with neurological symptoms is surgical removal of the cyst together with ligati...

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...