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Article: Suprasellar arachnoid cyst with bobble-head doll movements: A management option.(case report)(Disease/Disorder overview)
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- Journal of Pediatric Neurosciences
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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Byline: Vikram. Muthusubramanian, Anil. Pande, Madhabushi. Vasudevan, Ramamurthi. Ravi
The authors describe their experience with endoscopic ventriculo-cysto-cisternostomy and placement of cisterno-cysto-venticulo peritoneal shunt for suprasellar arachnoid cyst for a child with bobble head doll movements. The abnormal head movements improved and follow up imaging showed reduction in the cyst and ventricular size. The benefits of minimally invasive endoscopic ventriculocystocisternostomy with endoscopic guided placement of cisterno-cysto-ventriculo peritoneal shunt is been discussed.
Introduction
Arachnoid cysts are intra arachnoid collections ...