Intracranial arachnoid cysts – do they impair mental functions?

Wester, Knut

doi:10.1007/s00415-008-0011-y

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“…The patient may be asymptomatic or may experience a variety of symptoms, most commonly headache, and surgical cyst decompression may decrease or eliminate these symptoms, as shown both in children and adults (2,3). ACs have also been demonstrated to yield dyscognition, which normalizes after surgical cyst decompression (4).…”

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Pre‐ and post‐operative dizziness and postural instability in temporal arachnoid cyst patients

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Pre‐ and post‐operative dizziness and postural instability in temporal arachnoid cyst patients

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“…Arachnoid cysts can cause many different neuropsychiatric symptoms depending on their location. All of these effects and symptoms are caused either by compression of the cyst on the surrounding brain tissue or interference with the functions of the surrounding neurologic structures (da Silva et al 2007;Wester, 2008).…”

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REM Sleep Behavior Disorder Accompanying Arachnoid Cyst: A Case Report

Akıncı¹,

Samancioglu²

2016

Sleep Hypn

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REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is a parasomnia which is characterized by a loss of the normal skeletal muscle atonia associated with REM sleep with dream enactment behavior that is generally violent in nature. Serious injury to the patient or the bed partner can result from RBD episodes. Neuroanatomical and physiological integrity of structures in the brainstem is important for the continuity of REM atonia. Brain anomalies and lesions that affect the brainstem may play a causal role in the pathophysiology of RBD. In this case, the presentation of a 73-year-old woman who is diagnosed with RBD accompanying arachnoid cyst in posterior fossa was made.

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“…A minority of neurosurgeons continue to make an argument that arachnoid cysts may alter cognition and have used this argument as a justification for surgery in some cases. 94,95 Evidence of mass effect on imaging is not, by itself, a sufficient indication for surgical treatment of an arachnoid cyst. Any large intracranial cyst can have the appearance of mass effect on imaging.…”

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Incidental Findings on Brain and Spine Imaging in Children

Maher¹,

Piatt²,

Ragheb³

et al. 2015

Pediatrics

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In recent years, the utilization of diagnostic imaging of the brain and spine in children has increased dramatically, leading to a corresponding increase in the detection of incidental findings of the central nervous system. Patients with unexpected findings on imaging are often referred for subspecialty evaluation. Even with rational use of diagnostic imaging and subspecialty consultation, the diagnostic process will always generate unexpected findings that must be explained and managed. Familiarity with the most common findings that are discovered incidentally on diagnostic imaging of the brain and spine will assist the pediatrician in providing counseling to families and in making recommendations in conjunction with a neurosurgeon, when needed, regarding additional treatments and prognosis.

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Intracranial arachnoid cysts – do they impair mental functions?

Abstract: This survey indicates that arachnoid cysts may affect cognition and also that they do so in a reversible manner, as the patients' cognitive impairment seems to improve after surgical decompression of the cyst.

Cited by 56 publications

References 74 publications

Pre‐ and post‐operative dizziness and postural instability in temporal arachnoid cyst patients

Pre‐ and post‐operative dizziness and postural instability in temporal arachnoid cyst patients

REM Sleep Behavior Disorder Accompanying Arachnoid Cyst: A Case Report

Incidental Findings on Brain and Spine Imaging in Children

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