Cystic suprasellar and retrosellar arachnoiditis: a clinical and pathologic follow-up case report.
A patient, previously operated upon for a supra-and retrosellar arachnoid cyst, had again to undergo surgery for a recurrence and died in the early postoperative course. The gross and microscopic pathologic evidence obtained through necropsy is described: it seems to confirm the inflammatory nature of the arachnoid cyst, thus legitimating the term cystic optochiasmatic arachnoiditis used for the description of the same case in a previous report.
D001100:Arachnoiditis / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D003560:Cysts / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D009896:Optic Atrophy / Q000150:complications; D009897:Optic Chiasm / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D014794:Visual Fields