Thoracic Spinal Intramedullary Arachnoid Cyst Presented with Myelopathy with Marked Postoperative Improvement: A Case Report and Review of Literature

Intramedullary spinal cord arachnoid cysts are rare. So, we present an interesting case of adult male presented with myelopathic symptoms and signs. Further investigations revealed a finding of thoracic intramedullary cystic lesion, found postoperatively to be an arachnoid cyst. Patient improved rem...

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Autores principales: Shaaban, Ahmed, Abdelrahman, Amrou, Jarir, Raed Abu, Al-Bozom, Issam, Raza, Ali
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6703067/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31497146
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ajns.AJNS_72_19
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author Shaaban, Ahmed
Abdelrahman, Amrou
Jarir, Raed Abu
Al-Bozom, Issam
Raza, Ali
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description Intramedullary spinal cord arachnoid cysts are rare. So, we present an interesting case of adult male presented with myelopathic symptoms and signs. Further investigations revealed a finding of thoracic intramedullary cystic lesion, found postoperatively to be an arachnoid cyst. Patient improved remarkably postoperative and during follow up period.
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spelling pubmed-67030672019-09-06 Thoracic Spinal Intramedullary Arachnoid Cyst Presented with Myelopathy with Marked Postoperative Improvement: A Case Report and Review of Literature Shaaban, Ahmed Abdelrahman, Amrou Jarir, Raed Abu Al-Bozom, Issam Raza, Ali Asian J Neurosurg Case Report Intramedullary spinal cord arachnoid cysts are rare. So, we present an interesting case of adult male presented with myelopathic symptoms and signs. Further investigations revealed a finding of thoracic intramedullary cystic lesion, found postoperatively to be an arachnoid cyst. Patient improved remarkably postoperative and during follow up period. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6703067/ /pubmed/31497146 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ajns.AJNS_72_19 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Asian Journal of Neurosurgery http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Shaaban, Ahmed
Abdelrahman, Amrou
Jarir, Raed Abu
Al-Bozom, Issam
Raza, Ali
Thoracic Spinal Intramedullary Arachnoid Cyst Presented with Myelopathy with Marked Postoperative Improvement: A Case Report and Review of Literature
title Thoracic Spinal Intramedullary Arachnoid Cyst Presented with Myelopathy with Marked Postoperative Improvement: A Case Report and Review of Literature
title_full Thoracic Spinal Intramedullary Arachnoid Cyst Presented with Myelopathy with Marked Postoperative Improvement: A Case Report and Review of Literature
title_fullStr Thoracic Spinal Intramedullary Arachnoid Cyst Presented with Myelopathy with Marked Postoperative Improvement: A Case Report and Review of Literature
title_full_unstemmed Thoracic Spinal Intramedullary Arachnoid Cyst Presented with Myelopathy with Marked Postoperative Improvement: A Case Report and Review of Literature
title_short Thoracic Spinal Intramedullary Arachnoid Cyst Presented with Myelopathy with Marked Postoperative Improvement: A Case Report and Review of Literature
title_sort thoracic spinal intramedullary arachnoid cyst presented with myelopathy with marked postoperative improvement: a case report and review of literature
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6703067/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31497146
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ajns.AJNS_72_19
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