An arachnoid cyst in an 8-year-old boy with neurofibromatosis.
Although associations of a variety of developmental abnormalities of the brain and the spinal cord with neurofibromatosis have been reported, association of a cerebral arachnoid cyst with neurofibromatosis is extremely rare. We report the second case of this association in an 8-year-old Japanese boy.
D001099:Arachnoid / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002648:Child; D003560:Cysts / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006258:Head and Neck Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009456:Neurofibromatosis 1 / Q000150:complications*; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed