Anterior cervical location of arachnoid cyst is a rare and only 22 cases have been reported in the literature. The surgical approach was quite varied and mostly these cysts were accessed via dorsal laminectomy, with few patients developing postoperative neurological deficit. We report a 51-year-old male with a cervical arachnoid cyst extending from the dens to the inferior border of the C3 body...

A 35-year-old Japanese man's routine chest radiography revealed an abnormal opacity. Chest computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging showed a 5.5 cm in dia. cystic tumor located at the left anterior mediastinum. The tumor was suspected to be an asymptomatic thymic cyst, and we chose observation for the tumor. At the 3-year follow up, the cystic tumor had gradually enlarged to 7.5 cm in...

BACKGROUND To identify and estimate the prevalence of mediastinal cysts lined by the epithelium expressing steroid receptors. METHODS We retrieved 19 mediastinal cysts from our pathology files from 1996 to 2004, and examined estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PR) expressions in the cysts. RESULTS Three paravertebral cysts, all in women, one bronchogenic cyst in a woman, nine ...

Background: Cervical myelopathy is commonly seen in the older population caused by a degenerative process, but rare case, it can be pediatric due to uncommon causes, such as an intraspinal cyst. This case report aims discuss of cervical endodermal cyst two-year-old child.Case Presentation: A 2-year-old child with limited neck movement and abnormal body posture from 6 months before admission hos...