Giant arachnoid cyst in adult presented with secondary epileptiform activity

BACKGROUND: Current studies contain controversies regarding indications and preferable surgical techniques for arachnoid cysts. CASE DESCRIPTION: In this paper we present case report of giant arachnoid cyst of right frontal lobe in young left-handed adult with headache, MRI sings of brain compressio...

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Autores principales: Stanishevskiy, Artem, Gizatullin, Shamil, Davydov, Denis
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Scientific Scholar 2021
Materias:
Image Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8422425/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34513182
http://dx.doi.org/10.25259/SNI_617_2021
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Sumario:BACKGROUND: Current studies contain controversies regarding indications and preferable surgical techniques for arachnoid cysts. CASE DESCRIPTION: In this paper we present case report of giant arachnoid cyst of right frontal lobe in young left-handed adult with headache, MRI sings of brain compression and epileptiform activity on EEG, treated by microsurgical cystostomy. CONCLUSION: We add a case of young adult with tension headaches and possible sub-clinical seizures due to arachnoid cyst, whose symptoms disappeared after surgical management of the cyst, including normalization of EEG.

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