title: Traumatic arachnoid diverticula: a report of two cases causing spinal cord compression.
abstract: We wish to report two cases of large traumatic extradural diverticula resulting from motorcycle accidents and causing spinal cord compression. One was a complication of total brachial plexus avulsion and the other followed a closed spinal injury with probable associated brachial plexus traction and root sleeve rupture.
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic; D000328:Adult; D001099:Arachnoid; D004240:Diverticulum / Q000150:complications / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D006732:Horner Syndrome / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D007796:Laminectomy; D008297:Male; D009192:Myelography; D013117:Spinal Cord Compression / Q000209:etiology*; D013124:Spinal Injuries / Q000150:complications