Case Report
Pseudomeningocele after Surgical Fenestration of A Posterior Fossa Arachnoid Cyst
| Alcy R Torres* and Edgar Andrade | |
| Department of Pediatric Neurology, Boston Medical Center, Boston, USA | |
| Corresponding Author : | Alcy R Torres Department of Pediatric Neurology 725 Albany Street, Boston, MA 02118, USA Tel: +617-414-4501 Fax: +617-414-4502 E-mail: alcy.torres@bmc.org |
| Received May 13, 2015; Accepted June 11, 2015; Published June 15, 2015 | |
| Citation: Torres AR, Andrade E (2015) Pseudomeningocele after Surgical Fenestration of A Posterior Fossa Arachnoid Cyst. OMICS J Radiol 4:189. doi: 10.4172/2167-7964.1000189 | |
| Copyright: © 2015 Torres AR, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. | |
Abstract
We report a 7-year-old boy with a history of headaches, staring spells and speech delay. His neurological examination showed difficulties with tandem gait but no other cerebellar signs. Head CT showed an incidental mass suggestive of large arachnoid cyst of the posterior fossa. Brain MRI showed a cystic lesion at the inferomedial aspect of the left cerebellar hemisphere that follows CSF on all sequences and measured 5.3 cm transverse × 4.1 cm AP × 3.4 cm craniocaudal also consistent with an arachnoid cyst. The posterior wall of the cyst was then resected to create an opening end of the cyst. The symptoms improved but the procedure was complicated days later with the development of pseudomeningocele, a rare complication in children.
