Management of intracranial arachnoid cysts: Institutional experience with initial 32 cases and review of the literature

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-7

  Boutarbouch, Mahjouba ^a   El Ouahabi, Abdessamad ^a   Rifi, Loubna ^a   Arkha, Yasser ^a   Derraz, Saïd ^a   El Khamlichi, Abdeslam ^a  

^a MOHAMMED V UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Cystoperitoneal shunt; Endoscopic fenestration; Intracranial arachnoid cyst; Marsupialization; Stereotactic aspiration; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ARACHNOID CYST; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CRANIAL NERVE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FOLLOW UP; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL ARACHNOID CYST; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SEIZURE; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY;

ADULT; ARACHNOID CYSTS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 37249036442     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2007.08.009     Document Type: Review

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