Posttraumatic Intradiploic Leptomeningeal Cyst: A Rare Complication of Head Trauma

Posttraumatic intradiploic leptomeningeal cyst is an exceedingly uncommon complication of skull fracture in childhood with only about twenty-one cases described in literature till now. We report 2 such cases of intradiploic leptomeningeal cyst of occipital bone in two 17- and 21-year-old males prese...

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Autores principales: Bava, Jernailsingh, Bansal, Ashank, Patil, Santosh Bhaugaunda, Kale, Kiran Ashok, Joshi, Anagha Rajiv
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4629018/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26558129
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/395380
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Sumario:Posttraumatic intradiploic leptomeningeal cyst is an exceedingly uncommon complication of skull fracture in childhood with only about twenty-one cases described in literature till now. We report 2 such cases of intradiploic leptomeningeal cyst of occipital bone in two 17- and 21-year-old males presenting with headache with history of occipital bone fracture in childhood and briefly discuss its pathogenesis and differential diagnosis.

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