[Surgical treatment of middle cranial fossa arachnoid cyst in children with atypical symptoms--report of three cases].
We report three cases of symptomatic arachnoid cyst in the middle cranial fossa who presented with atypical symptoms including speech delay, vomiting and personality changes. They were improved by a cyst-peritoneal shunt operation. In many patients with a small or middle sized arachnoid cyst in the middle cranial fossa, their symptom tends to be so trivial that surgery is not the choice of treatment. The present cases suggest that peculiar symptoms caused by a limbic system lesion may be improved by treating the arachnoid cyst in the middle cranial fossa.
Yamazaki
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Department of Neurosurgery, Tsukuba University School of Medicine, Tsukuba, Ibaraki.
Enomoto
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Aoki
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Nose
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D016080:Arachnoid Cysts / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007805:Language Development Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D008297:Male; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D019291:Skull Base; D017287:Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt / Q000379:methods*; D014839:Vomiting / Q000209:etiology