title: Sylvian cistern dermoid cyst presenting with dysgeusia.
abstract: It is rare for a patient with a dermoid cyst (DC) to present with taste dysfunction. A 58-year-old man presented with an altered sense of taste. Magnetic resonance imaging of the brain showed a mass lesion in the right insula with compression effect. The tumour was resected and was found to be a DC. The postoperative course was uneventful, and the patient resumed his usual taste sensation within the early postoperative period. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of a sylvian cistern DC that presented with dysgeusia.
authors.affiliation: School of Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery, Uludag University, Bursa, Turkey. hasankocaeli@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Hasan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kocaeli
authors.forename: Ender
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Korfali
authors.forename: Seref
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Doğan
authors.forename: Mehmet
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Savran
mesh_terms: D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D002540:Cerebral Cortex; D003399:Craniotomy; D003884:Dermoid Cyst / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000150:complications; D004408:Dysgeusia / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged