Endoscopic surgery for intraventricular arachnoid cysts in children: clinical presentation, radiological features, management, and outcomes over a 12-year period.
Phillip CopleyMatthew A KirkmanDominic ThompsonGreg JamesKristian AquilinaPublished in: Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery (2017)
Endoscopic fenestration is safe and effective in most intraventricular arachnoid cysts. Additional cisternostomy at the time of cyst fenestration into the ventricle significantly improved revision-free survival in our cohort. Endoscopic surgery should be the first-line therapy when considering intervention for symptomatic intraventricular arachnoid cysts and for asymptomatic cysts increasing in size on serial imaging.
Keyphrases
- ultrasound guided
- free survival
- minimally invasive
- coronary artery bypass
- randomized controlled trial
- high resolution
- surgical site infection
- young adults
- pulmonary hypertension
- mitral valve
- adipose tissue
- metabolic syndrome
- mesenchymal stem cells
- bone marrow
- total hip arthroplasty
- acute coronary syndrome
- mass spectrometry
- replacement therapy