Spinal arachnoid cyst without neural tube defect

• Published in: Child's nervous system Vol. 17; no. 3; pp. 179 - 181
• Main Authors: GELABERT-GONZALEZ, M, CUTRIN-PRIETO, J. M, GARCIA-ALLUT, A
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin Springer 01-02-2001
• Subjects: Arachnoid Cysts - complications; Arachnoid Cysts - diagnosis; Arachnoid Cysts - surgery; Biological and medical sciences; Decompression, Surgical; Diagnosis, Differential; Female; Humans; Infant; Lumbar Vertebrae; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Medical sciences; Neural Tube Defects - diagnosis; Neurology; Spinal Cord Compression - etiology; Spinal Cord Diseases - complications; Spinal Cord Diseases - diagnosis; Spinal Cord Diseases - surgery; Treatment Outcome; Tumors of the nervous system. Phacomatoses; Human; Nervous system diseases; Vertebral canal; Arachnoidal cyst; Infant; Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging; Case study; Central nervous system disease; Medical imagery; Female; Benign neoplasm; Diagnosis; Lumbar; Spinal cord disease
• ISSN: 0256-7040; 1433-0350
• DOI: 10.1007/s003810000367

Symptomatic arachnoid cysts of the spine are rare lesions in the pediatric age group. Although most commonly occurring in association with neural tube defects, such as myelomeningocele and diastematomyelia, in some cases the cysts appear in children without spinal anomalies. We describe a 12-month-old girl with lumbar intradural arachnoid cyst with progressive weakness of the lower limbs. There was full recovery after fenestration of the cyst.