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Giant Arachnoid Granulation Associated with Anomalous Draining Vein: A Case Report

Giant arachnoid granulations (AG) can mimic intracranial lesions. Knowledge of these structures can help avoid misdiagnosis when interpreting imaging. Here, we report a child who presented with a mass within the superior sagittal sinus and an anomalous draining vein. Herein, the diagnosis of a giant...

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Autores principales: Umeh, Randle, Oskouian, Rod J, Loukas, Marios, Tubbs, R. Shane
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5375954/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28409066
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1065
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description Giant arachnoid granulations (AG) can mimic intracranial lesions. Knowledge of these structures can help avoid misdiagnosis when interpreting imaging. Here, we report a child who presented with a mass within the superior sagittal sinus and an anomalous draining vein. Herein, the diagnosis of a giant AG was made. Clinicians who view or interpret imaging of the head should be aware of these anatomical variants and though when very large, apparently, do not necessarily result in pathology. Based on our case report, giant AG might also demonstrate anomalous draining veins.
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spelling pubmed-53759542017-04-13 Giant Arachnoid Granulation Associated with Anomalous Draining Vein: A Case Report Umeh, Randle Oskouian, Rod J Loukas, Marios Tubbs, R. Shane Cureus Neurosurgery Giant arachnoid granulations (AG) can mimic intracranial lesions. Knowledge of these structures can help avoid misdiagnosis when interpreting imaging. Here, we report a child who presented with a mass within the superior sagittal sinus and an anomalous draining vein. Herein, the diagnosis of a giant AG was made. Clinicians who view or interpret imaging of the head should be aware of these anatomical variants and though when very large, apparently, do not necessarily result in pathology. Based on our case report, giant AG might also demonstrate anomalous draining veins. Cureus 2017-03-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5375954/ /pubmed/28409066 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1065 Text en Copyright © 2017, Umeh et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Giant Arachnoid Granulation Associated with Anomalous Draining Vein: A Case Report
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title_full Giant Arachnoid Granulation Associated with Anomalous Draining Vein: A Case Report
title_fullStr Giant Arachnoid Granulation Associated with Anomalous Draining Vein: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Giant Arachnoid Granulation Associated with Anomalous Draining Vein: A Case Report
title_short Giant Arachnoid Granulation Associated with Anomalous Draining Vein: A Case Report
title_sort giant arachnoid granulation associated with anomalous draining vein: a case report
topic Neurosurgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5375954/
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