Giant suprasellar arachnoid cyst - A case with severe brain stem compression: An incidental finding in a head trauma

Pediatric Neurosurgery

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 174-176

  Monsalve, Guillermo ^a,b   Luque, Juan Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD MILITAR NUEVA GRANADA   (Colombia)

^b HOSPITAL MILITAR CENTRAL   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; BRAIN ARACHNOID CYST; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC NERVE ATROPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SURGICAL DRAINAGE;

ARACHNOID CYSTS; BRAIN STEM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM CYSTS; CHILD; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; EXOTROPIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEAD INJURIES, CLOSED; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OPTIC ATROPHY; PNEUMOCEPHALUS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SEIZURES, FEBRILE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNT;

EID: 33847345115     PISSN: 10162291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000098398     Document Type: Article

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