title: Giant choroid plexus cyst as an accidental finding in an older man.
abstract: Choroid plexus cysts (CPC) are usually found at the end of the second trimester of pregnancy. Sometimes they can be accidentally and found on prenatal ultrasound examinations. Vast majority of CPC resolve spontaneously by 28th weeks gestation. In the older aged group the choroid plexus cysts are extremely rare pathomorphologic medical entity. Since they are almost always asymptomatic, they are therefore accidentally found on brain magnetic resonance (MR) or computed tomography (CT) scans. They are usually located in the lateral ventricles and measure around 2 cm in diameter. We present a case of a 75-year-old male with a giant choroid plexus cyst whose leading symptom was excruciating headache refractory to previous conservative therapy. He underwent surgery when osteoplastic craniotomy was performed with cyst fenestration and ablation. His recovery was uneventful with total regression of headaches. Reviewing the recent literature we did not find such a case considering the patients age and the size of the choroid plexus cyst.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Sestre milosrdnice, Zagreb, Croatia.
authors.forename: Boris
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Bozić
authors.forename: Kresimir
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Rotim
authors.forename: Karlo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Houra
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D002831:Choroid Plexus / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D003560:Cysts / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006261:Headache / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed