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Iatrogenic intradural arachnoid cyst following tethered cord release in a child
- Source :
- Journal of Clinical Neuroscience. 24:163-164
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2016.
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Abstract
- Iatrogenic arachnoid cysts represent uncommon complications of intradural spinal procedures. Here we present the case of a 7-year-old girl who was found to have a symptomatic, pathologically proven, intradural arachnoid cyst 3 years following tethered cord release. The patient originally presented with abnormal urodynamics testing and was found to have fatty infiltration in her filum terminale. She underwent sectioning of the filum terminale without complications. The patient presented 3 years later with pain and neurogenic claudication. The patient was successfully treated with subarachnoid cyst fenestration with resolution of her bilateral lower extremity pain. Spinal intradural arachnoid cysts represent an important, though rare, postoperative complication of dural opening.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Cauda Equina
Spinal intradural arachnoid cysts
Iatrogenic Disease
Neurogenic claudication
Neurosurgical Procedures
Spinal Cord Diseases
03 medical and health sciences
Postoperative Complications
0302 clinical medicine
Arachnoid cyst
Physiology (medical)
medicine
Humans
Cyst
Neural Tube Defects
Child
Tethered Cord
business.industry
Postoperative complication
General Medicine
medicine.disease
nervous system diseases
030205 complementary & alternative medicine
Surgery
Arachnoid Cysts
medicine.anatomical_structure
Neurology
Female
Neurology (clinical)
Filum terminale
medicine.symptom
Fenestration
business
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 09675868
- Volume :
- 24
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Clinical Neuroscience
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....cdf98af1789eed9656b72bdecb664055