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Spontaneous intraventricular rupture of a craniopharyngioma cyst: A case report

Intraventricular rupture of craniopharyngioma cysts is an unusual event which is associated with a high risk of loculated or communicating hydrocephalus. A 75-year-old woman presented at the Emergency Department of our hospital with mental status deterioration due to chemical ventriculitis and acute...

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Autores principales: Vakharia, Kunal, Siasios, Ioannis Dimitrios, Dorsch, Alexander B., Leonardo, Jody
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5479076/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28660168
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/IJCIIS.IJCIIS_121_16
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description Intraventricular rupture of craniopharyngioma cysts is an unusual event which is associated with a high risk of loculated or communicating hydrocephalus. A 75-year-old woman presented at the Emergency Department of our hospital with mental status deterioration due to chemical ventriculitis and acute hydrocephalus following the intraventricular rupture of a craniopharyngioma cyst. The patient was treated with stress-dose steroid therapy. In addition, she underwent placement of an external ventricular drain and endoscopy-assisted intra-cystic placement of an Ommaya reservoir for the aspiration of the cystic fluid. The patient's condition improved; she was shunted in an expeditious fashion and discharged from the Intensive Care Unit within 2 weeks of her admission with the reservoir in place for the continued drainage of the cyst.
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spelling pubmed-54790762017-06-28 Spontaneous intraventricular rupture of a craniopharyngioma cyst: A case report Vakharia, Kunal Siasios, Ioannis Dimitrios Dorsch, Alexander B. Leonardo, Jody Int J Crit Illn Inj Sci Case Report Intraventricular rupture of craniopharyngioma cysts is an unusual event which is associated with a high risk of loculated or communicating hydrocephalus. A 75-year-old woman presented at the Emergency Department of our hospital with mental status deterioration due to chemical ventriculitis and acute hydrocephalus following the intraventricular rupture of a craniopharyngioma cyst. The patient was treated with stress-dose steroid therapy. In addition, she underwent placement of an external ventricular drain and endoscopy-assisted intra-cystic placement of an Ommaya reservoir for the aspiration of the cystic fluid. The patient's condition improved; she was shunted in an expeditious fashion and discharged from the Intensive Care Unit within 2 weeks of her admission with the reservoir in place for the continued drainage of the cyst. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5479076/ /pubmed/28660168 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/IJCIIS.IJCIIS_121_16 Text en Copyright: © 2017 International Journal of Critical Illness and Injury Science http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title Spontaneous intraventricular rupture of a craniopharyngioma cyst: A case report
title_full Spontaneous intraventricular rupture of a craniopharyngioma cyst: A case report
title_fullStr Spontaneous intraventricular rupture of a craniopharyngioma cyst: A case report
title_full_unstemmed Spontaneous intraventricular rupture of a craniopharyngioma cyst: A case report
title_short Spontaneous intraventricular rupture of a craniopharyngioma cyst: A case report
title_sort spontaneous intraventricular rupture of a craniopharyngioma cyst: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5479076/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28660168
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/IJCIIS.IJCIIS_121_16
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