CHOROID-PLEXUS PAPILLOMA AND CYSTS IN THE AICARDI-SYNDROME - CASE-REPORTS

Authors
UCHIYAMA CM CAREY CM CHERNY WB BROCKMEYER DL FALKNER LD WALKER ML BOYER RS
Citation
Cm. Uchiyama et al., CHOROID-PLEXUS PAPILLOMA AND CYSTS IN THE AICARDI-SYNDROME - CASE-REPORTS, Pediatric neurosurgery, 27(2), 1997, pp. 100-104
Citations number
24
Journal title
Pediatric neurosurgery → ACNP
ISSN journal
10162291
Volume
27
Issue
2
Year of publication
1997
Pages
100 - 104
Database
ISI
SICI code
1016-2291(1997)27:2<100:CPACIT>2.0.ZU;2-U
Abstract
Two female infants with callosal agenesis, infantile spasms, chorioret inal lacunae, optic disc colobomas and cortical heterotopias were diag nosed with Aicardi syndrome. A choroid plexus papilloma was found in o ne patient, and choroid plexus cysts were found in the other. Choroid plexus lesions are common findings in the Aicardi syndrome and are dis cussed in this paper.