RUPTURED SPINAL DERMOID CYST WITH CHEMICAL ARACHNOIDITIS AND DISSEMINATED INTRACRANIAL LIPID DROPLETS

Authors
ROEDER MB BAZAN C JINKINS JR
Citation
Mb. Roeder et al., RUPTURED SPINAL DERMOID CYST WITH CHEMICAL ARACHNOIDITIS AND DISSEMINATED INTRACRANIAL LIPID DROPLETS, Neuroradiology, 37(2), 1995, pp. 146-147
Citations number
7
Categorie Soggetti
Radiology,Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging",Neurosciences
Journal title
Neuroradiology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00283940
Volume
37
Issue
2
Year of publication
1995
Pages
146 - 147
Database
ISI
SICI code
0028-3940(1995)37:2<146:RSDCWC>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
A 33-year-old man presented with a 3-month history of gradually progre ssive leg weakness. Spinal MRI and myelography with CT demonstrated an extensive intradural abnormality suggesting a diffuse inflammatory or neoplastic process. Only after cranial CT and MRI demonstrated lipid droplets was the diagnosis of a ruptured spinal dermoid cyst suggested . Subsequent laminectomy revealed a ruptured intradural dermoid cyst i n the lumbar spine, with chemical arachnoiditis.