Intracranial arachnoid cysts in children: related signs and associated anomalies

Wang, Pen-Jung; Lin, Hon‐Yi; Liu, Hon‐Man; Tseng, Chao-Lin; Shen, Yu-Zen

doi:10.1016/s0887-8994(98)00020-4

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“…6 Wang et al 8 suggested that the only absolute indication for surgery was the presence of progressive hydrocephalus or intracranial hypertension. However, suprasellar arachnoid cysts are a potential cause of any kind of symptom at any time, and many cases have shown reversion of clinical signs or no improvement despite surgical intervention.…”

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Management of a suprasellar arachnoid cyst identified using prenatal sonography

Fujimura¹,

Shima²,

Arai³

et al. 2006

J of Clinical Ultrasound

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We present a rare case of suprasellar arachnoid cyst discovered incidentally on routine fetal sonographic examination. Serial sonographic and MRI scanning led to a prenatal diagnosis and appropriate endoscopic treatment at 5 months of age. The patient is currently developing normally at 3 years of age. Careful screening of fetal intracranial abnormalities is important in routine prenatal sonographic examination for early intervention, which will prevent irreversible complications such as endocrine disorders and visual impairment.

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Management of a suprasellar arachnoid cyst identified using prenatal sonography

Fujimura¹,

Shima²,

Arai³

et al. 2006

J of Clinical Ultrasound

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“…However when these become symptomatic, they cause symptoms and signs generally according to their localization sites. Middle fossa arachnoid cysts are mostly manifested with headache, seizure, contralateral weakness, mental retardation, and behavioral disorder [3,[6][7][8][9][10][11]. The only complaint of our patient was headache worsening with over time.…”

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confidence: 69%

“…Surgical indications are increased intracranial pressure, progressive hydrocephalus, presence of pressure onto neural structures, refractory epilepsy which is confirmed to be due to cyst, and development of intacystic and subdural hemorrhage [9][10][11][12]. Our surgical indications include headache which was considered to be due to increased intracranial pressure, and presence of pressure onto neural structures.…”

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Arachnoid Cyst as a Rare Cause of Headache in a Teenager: Case Report

Ak¹

2012

J Neurol Res

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Headache is a common complaint in children and adolescents. Only minority percentage of headaches is associated with serious causative factors such as space occupying lesion. Arachnoid cysts compose less than of one percent of all intracranial lesions and they are mostly asymptomatic. Herein, we present a teenager with refractory headache diagnosed with arachnoid cyst. Cystoperitoneal shunt insertion was performed and patient's complaint totally resolved.

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“…All previously reported skull enlargements from arachnoid cysts were too small or diffuse to result in limitation of positioning [3,6,7,13,16,17,19]. In this particular patient, the authors observed a case of large focal skull deformity that limited the patient's positioning in the supine position only as a consequence of arachnoid cyst expansion.…”

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confidence: 72%

“…However, the incidence is recently increasing as a consequence of widespread routine examination of the brain with high-resolution ultrasonography for neonates. There have also been many previous reports for macrocrania, or focal enlargement of skull, in patients with arachnoid cysts [6,7,17,19]. Arachnoid cysts of the middle cranial fossa is the most frequent form, and usually present as ballooning of the temporal skull, but occasionally, the condition paradoxically produces a small cranium [3,18].…”

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confidence: 99%