Apropos of an unusual and menacing presentation of neurosarcoidosis: the space-occupying trapped temporal horn.
The trapped ventricular horn syndrome is characterized by the exclusion of a compartment of the ventricular tract from the rest of the CSF pathways. This syndrome has been reported in a variety of diseases including meningitis, intraventricular haemorrhages and tumours. Only two previous cases of neurosarcoidosis-related trapped temporal horn syndromes have been reported. The authors add a third case of a trapped temporal horn revealing neurosarcoidosis, presenting as a space-occupying process requiring urgent temporal tip lobectomy.
Berhouma
Moncef
M
Department of Neurosurgery, Pierre Wertheimer Hospital of Lyon, France. berhouma.moncef@yahoo.fr
Abderrazek
Karim
K
Krichen
Walid
W
Jemel
Hafedh
H
D000328:Adult; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006849:Hydrocephalus / Q000175:diagnosis; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods; D012507:Sarcoidosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*