Anterior cervical arachnoid cyst presenting with traumatic quadriplegia.
BACKGROUND
Intraduralspinal arachnoid cysts are rare. Rarer still are cysts located anteriorto the cervical spinal cord. To date,only 10 such cases have been re-ported in the English-language liter-ature.


METHODS
Two cases ofanterior cervical arachnoid cysts thatpresented as traumatic quadriplegiaare reported.
Department of Neurosurgery, Madurai Medical College, Muruganagam, 138 Anna Nagar, 625-020 Madurai, India. prasan86@eth.net
Natarajan
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Muthukumar
D000293:Adolescent; D016080:Arachnoid Cysts / Q000150:complications*; D002574:Cervical Vertebrae / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods; D008297:Male; D018908:Muscle Weakness / Q000503:physiopathology; D011782:Quadriplegia / Q000150:complications*; D013117:Spinal Cord Compression / Q000150:complications; D013120:Spinal Cord Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*