Long-term follow-up of children and juveniles with arachnoid cysts.
In the vast literature on intracranial arachnoid cysts, communication of long-term follow-up is rare. Therefore, we studied the case histories of 60 children and juveniles operated on in our hospital since 1951. The most favorable cases were patients with temporal cysts: 93% recovered fully or with only slight deficits. In other locations (frontal, parietal, occipital, infratentorial), the percentages for a favorable course were lower. The reason cannot be attributed to the operation procedures. Independent of the surgical procedure, there were no postoperative deaths after 1969. Long-term follow-up revealed that, depending on the location of the arachnoid cyst, a high percentage (62%-93% of patients) had normal physical and social development with satisfactory quality of life.
Neurochirurgische Universitätsklinik, Köln, Federal Republic of Germany.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001099:Arachnoid; D002493:Central Nervous System Diseases / Q000145:classification / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003560:Cysts / Q000145:classification / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D011184:Postoperative Period; D013997:Time Factors