Diverticular enlargement of the foramina of Luschka and congenital hydrocephalus.
METHODS
We report on a 9-month-old boy with congenital hydrocephalus involving cystic lesions in the bilateral cerebellopontine angle cisterns. Sequential CT cisternography demonstrated congenital obstruction of the fourth ventricular outlet and diverticular enlargement of the foramina of Luschka.


CONCLUSIONS
The possibility of neuroendoscopic third ventriculostomy as a treatment for these pathologies is discussed.
Inamura
Takanori
T
Department of Neurosurgery, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan.
Morioka
Takato
T
Nishio
Shunji
S
Ikezaki
Kiyonobu
K
Nonaka
Hiroki
H
Yoshiura
Takashi
T
D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000151:congenital* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D014695:Cerebral Ventriculography; D002557:Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunts; D004240:Diverticulum; D004322:Drainage / Q000379:methods; D004724:Endoscopy / Q000379:methods; D020546:Fourth Ventricle / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D006849:Hydrocephalus / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D007223:Infant; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D020542:Third Ventricle / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014696:Ventriculostomy