Endoscopic assisted excision of a retroclival arachnoid cyst presenting as hysterical breathlessness

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 424-427

  Dwarakanath, S ^a   Suri, A ^a,b   Mahapatra, A K ^a   Mehta, V S ^a   Gaikwad, S ^a   Sarkar, C ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b NONE   (India)

Author keywords

Arachnoid cyst; Endoscopic; Interpeduncular; Pediatric; Psychosomatic dyspnoea; Retroclival

Indexed keywords

BRAIN ARACHNOID CYST; BRAIN SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONVALESCENCE; DYSPNEA; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MICROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTOSIS; REVIEW; SCHOOL CHILD; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOM;

ARACHNOID CYSTS; CHILD; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; DYSPNEA; HUMANS; HYSTERIA; MALE; NEUROENDOSCOPY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS;

EID: 33645319185     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-005-1169-6     Document Type: Review

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