Two-step surgical treatment using miniature Ommaya's reservoirs for a neonate with multiple large arachnoid cysts.
METHODS
We followed a two-step surgical strategy using miniature Ommaya's reservoirs in an early neonate with multiple large arachnoid cysts.


CONCLUSIONS
Percutaneous fluid aspiration through the reservoirs placed during the first operation permitted the infant to develop sufficiently to withstand the second, more radical cyst wall excision.
Kawamoto
Hitoshi
H
Department of Neurosurgery, Shimane Prefectural Central Hospital, Izumo, Japan. a4q28hk@m9.megagg.ne.jp
Ikawa
Fusao
F
Imada
Yasutaka
Y
Katoh
Humihide
H
Hasegawa
Akihiro
A
D016080:Arachnoid Cysts / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D002408:Catheters, Indwelling; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D019635:Neurosurgical Procedures / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016216:Ultrasonography, Prenatal