Spinal extradural arachnoid cyst in a child—a case report

Extradural spinal arachnoid cysts are rare lesions. They frequently communicate with the subarachnoid space through a defect in the dura. Symptoms result from compression of the spinal cord or nerve roots. The treatment of choice is complete surgical excision. We report the case of a 12-year-old gir...

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Autores principales: Oyemolade, Toyin A, Adeolu, Augustine A, Idowu, Olusola K
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6796170/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31636891
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjz283
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description Extradural spinal arachnoid cysts are rare lesions. They frequently communicate with the subarachnoid space through a defect in the dura. Symptoms result from compression of the spinal cord or nerve roots. The treatment of choice is complete surgical excision. We report the case of a 12-year-old girl with extradural spinal arachnoid cyst who had complete surgical excision with good outcome.
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spelling pubmed-67961702019-10-21 Spinal extradural arachnoid cyst in a child—a case report Oyemolade, Toyin A Adeolu, Augustine A Idowu, Olusola K J Surg Case Rep Case Report Extradural spinal arachnoid cysts are rare lesions. They frequently communicate with the subarachnoid space through a defect in the dura. Symptoms result from compression of the spinal cord or nerve roots. The treatment of choice is complete surgical excision. We report the case of a 12-year-old girl with extradural spinal arachnoid cyst who had complete surgical excision with good outcome. Oxford University Press 2019-10-17 /pmc/articles/PMC6796170/ /pubmed/31636891 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjz283 Text en Published by Oxford University Press and JSCR Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. © The Author(s) 2019. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6796170/
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