Background: We have gradually adopted a liberal attitude towards surgical decompression of arachnoid cysts. This study describes the results from our institution. Methods: Long term clinical and ...

Arachnoid Cyst of the Posterior Cranial Fossa: (Left) T1-weighted axial MRI; (Right) T2-weighted axial image. Note the large cystic lesion in the posterior fossa. As the cyst contains fluid, it is ...

Spinal extradural arachnoid cyst (SEDAC) develops from a protrusion of the arachnoid through a defect in the dura mater in young adulthood. Its location is variable. It is a rare cause of spinal cord ...

Arachnoid cysts are fluid-filled brain cysts that you can be born with or that develop later on. Learn more about the causes, symptoms, and treatment.

The patient consented to surgical intervention with a laminectomy and intradural exploration with fenestration of the arachnoid adhesions or cysts if encountered. Intraoperatively, a high-speed drill ...

Congenital CM1 occurs in patients with a constitutionally small posterior fossa. 6,7 In adults, symptoms from CM1 most commonly develop before the age of 45 years (mean age, 40 years), with an ...

There are six main types of brain cysts: arachnoid, pineal, colloid, dermoid, epidermoid, and neoplastic. Learn more about them here.

Neurological symptoms usually develop over a period of months. The presence of a neurological deficit is an indication for surgical intervention, which includes methods such as fenestration and ...

Arachnoid cysts (ACs) are benign, discrete pockets of CSF (cerebrospinal fluid) or CSF-like fluids, accounting for 1% of all intracranial space-occupying lesions.

Arachnoid cysts are cerebrospinal fluid-filled arachnoid cysts that develop between two membrane layers of the brain — the arachnoid membrane and pia mater. According to Kundishora and Allington, ...

Intracranial arachnoid cysts are often found in the middle cranial fossa, posterior cranial fossa, suprasellar, and quadrigeminal bodies (7, 9). Some intracranial arachnoid cyst patients present with ...

Symptoms Some arachnoid cysts do not cause symptoms, especially if they are small. When symptoms do occur, they depend on the cyst’s size, location, and any structures it is compressing.