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Published in: Child's Nervous System 2/2018

01-02-2018 | Case Report

Temporal arachnoid cysts: are they congenital?

Authors: Hamilton Matushita, Daniel Dante Cardeal, Fernanda Gonçalves de Andrade, Manoel Jacobsen Teixeira

Published in: Child's Nervous System | Issue 2/2018

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Abstract

Case report

The authors report two cases of arachnoid cysts (ACs) neither detected during pregnancy nor shortly after birth when newborns underwent CT scan evaluation after birth head trauma. ACs were diagnosed at 10 months and 6 years, respectively. The first one becomes symptomatic, and the other one was incidentally found during a head trauma investigation.

Discussion

These cases give support for the postnatal pathogenesis for some of the assumed congenital ACs. We collected data from the literature that supports the acquired hypothesis for ACs.
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Metadata
Title
Temporal arachnoid cysts: are they congenital?
Authors
Hamilton Matushita
Daniel Dante Cardeal
Fernanda Gonçalves de Andrade
Manoel Jacobsen Teixeira
Publication date
01-02-2018
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Child's Nervous System / Issue 2/2018
Print ISSN: 0256-7040
Electronic ISSN: 1433-0350
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00381-017-3613-9

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