A Case of a Spinal Extradural Arachnoid Cyst
Joint Authors
Tsuge, Shintaro
Wada, Akihito
Kojimahara, Yousuke
Fukutake, Katsunori
Takahashi, Hiroshi
Nakamura, Kazumasa
Hasegawa, Keiji
Source
Issue
Vol. 2019, Issue 2019 (31 Dec. 2019), pp.1-3, 3 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2019-10-17
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
3
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
The patient was a 49-year-old woman with a chief complaint of hip and buttock pain that had persisted for 3 years.
She visited our hospital for aggravation of the pain.
Percussion tenderness of the spinous process was observed and a T1-low, T2-high cystic lesion was detected on the dorsal side of the dural canal at the 12th thoracic vertebral level on MRI performed by a previous physician.
Plane CT showed severe scalloping at the same level.
During laminectomy for the 11th and 12th thoracic vertebrae, a cystic lesion of about 60×25 mm was noted on the dorsal side of the dural canal, with a communication pathway with the cyst present near the left 12th nerve root bifurcation.
This pathway was ligated and the cyst was excised.
The histopathological diagnosis was an arachnoid cyst.
Pain improved after surgery, and as of 10 months after surgery, the cystic lesion has not recurred.
A spinal extradural arachnoid cyst (SEAC) is a relatively rare disease.
This case shows that surgical ligation of a communicating tract and cystectomy are necessary and contrast-enhanced CT was useful for the identification of the position of the communication pathway before surgery.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Kojimahara, Yousuke& Tsuge, Shintaro& Hasegawa, Keiji& Fukutake, Katsunori& Nakamura, Kazumasa& Wada, Akihito…[et al.]. 2019. A Case of a Spinal Extradural Arachnoid Cyst. Case Reports in Orthopedics،Vol. 2019, no. 2019, pp.1-3.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Kojimahara, Yousuke…[et al.]. A Case of a Spinal Extradural Arachnoid Cyst. Case Reports in Orthopedics No. 2019 (2019), pp.1-3.
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American Medical Association (AMA)
Kojimahara, Yousuke& Tsuge, Shintaro& Hasegawa, Keiji& Fukutake, Katsunori& Nakamura, Kazumasa& Wada, Akihito…[et al.]. A Case of a Spinal Extradural Arachnoid Cyst. Case Reports in Orthopedics. 2019. Vol. 2019, no. 2019, pp.1-3.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1142590
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1142590