Pseudotumor Syndrome in Treated Arachnoid Cysts

Overview

Journal Childs Nerv Syst

Specialty Pediatrics

Date 1992 Jun 1

PMID 1394252

Citations 8

Authors

V J Maixner

M Besser

I H Johnston

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Abstract

We report three patients with arachnoid cysts treated by cyst-peritoneal shunting in whom intracranial hypertension occurred during episodes of shunt malfunction. In one case this was associated with re-expansion of the arachnoid cyst, whilst in the other two cases this did not occur. The similarities between these two cases and patients with pseudotumor cerebri suggest a common pathogenic mechanism--specifically, a disturbance of the cerebrospinal fluid circulation.

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