Artigo Acesso aberto Produção Nacional Revisado por pares

Cisto de aracnóide e pseudotumor cerebral: relato de caso

1996; Thieme Medical Publishers (Germany); Volume: 54; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1590/s0004-282x1996000200020

ISSN

1678-4227

Autores

Nilton Domingos Cabral, Ricardo Nitrini, José Píndaro Pereira Plese,

Tópico(s)

Neurosurgical Procedures and Complications

Resumo

Report on a 12 years old patient with an arachnoid cyst of posterior cranial fossa and pseudotumor cerebri. This patient is a shunt dependent of his cyst-peritoneal shunt. This association and evolution of this pacient suggest a common and specifical pathogenic mechanism of these two pathologies based in a disturbance of the cerebral fluid circulation.

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