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Seizures and Postictal Psychosis in a Patient With Retrocerebellar Arachnoid Cyst: A Case Report
Retrocerebellar arachnoid cysts are uncommon intracranial tumors, especially rare in adults. Although asymptomatic in the majority of cases, they may cause a variety of symptoms including convulsions. The causal involvement of these cysts in postictal psychosis, however, remains a topic that is not...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9187137/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35698697 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.24935 |
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author | Biswas, Rittika Sen, Ishan |
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description | Retrocerebellar arachnoid cysts are uncommon intracranial tumors, especially rare in adults. Although asymptomatic in the majority of cases, they may cause a variety of symptoms including convulsions. The causal involvement of these cysts in postictal psychosis, however, remains a topic that is not well-explained in the literature. An 85-year-old Asian man presented with recurrent episodes of convulsions for the last seven months along with preceding headaches and postictal psychotic symptoms. MRI of the head revealed a retrocerebellar arachnoid cyst. He was commenced on symptomatic pharmacological therapy after he refused surgical intervention and remained symptom-free till his discharge from the hospital before being eventually lost to follow-up. This case report focuses on the rare occurrence of a retrocerebellar arachnoid cyst with seizures and postictal psychosis and illustrates the necessity of further case studies and research to identify and explore the potential causal relationship between arachnoid cysts and psychosis. |
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spelling | pubmed-91871372022-06-12 Seizures and Postictal Psychosis in a Patient With Retrocerebellar Arachnoid Cyst: A Case Report Biswas, Rittika Sen, Ishan Cureus Internal Medicine Retrocerebellar arachnoid cysts are uncommon intracranial tumors, especially rare in adults. Although asymptomatic in the majority of cases, they may cause a variety of symptoms including convulsions. The causal involvement of these cysts in postictal psychosis, however, remains a topic that is not well-explained in the literature. An 85-year-old Asian man presented with recurrent episodes of convulsions for the last seven months along with preceding headaches and postictal psychotic symptoms. MRI of the head revealed a retrocerebellar arachnoid cyst. He was commenced on symptomatic pharmacological therapy after he refused surgical intervention and remained symptom-free till his discharge from the hospital before being eventually lost to follow-up. This case report focuses on the rare occurrence of a retrocerebellar arachnoid cyst with seizures and postictal psychosis and illustrates the necessity of further case studies and research to identify and explore the potential causal relationship between arachnoid cysts and psychosis. Cureus 2022-05-12 /pmc/articles/PMC9187137/ /pubmed/35698697 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.24935 Text en Copyright © 2022, Biswas et al. https://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. |
spellingShingle | Internal Medicine Biswas, Rittika Sen, Ishan Seizures and Postictal Psychosis in a Patient With Retrocerebellar Arachnoid Cyst: A Case Report |
title | Seizures and Postictal Psychosis in a Patient With Retrocerebellar Arachnoid Cyst: A Case Report |
title_full | Seizures and Postictal Psychosis in a Patient With Retrocerebellar Arachnoid Cyst: A Case Report |
title_fullStr | Seizures and Postictal Psychosis in a Patient With Retrocerebellar Arachnoid Cyst: A Case Report |
title_full_unstemmed | Seizures and Postictal Psychosis in a Patient With Retrocerebellar Arachnoid Cyst: A Case Report |
title_short | Seizures and Postictal Psychosis in a Patient With Retrocerebellar Arachnoid Cyst: A Case Report |
title_sort | seizures and postictal psychosis in a patient with retrocerebellar arachnoid cyst: a case report |
topic | Internal Medicine |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9187137/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35698697 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.24935 |
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