CEREBRAL AQUEDUCT STENOSIS PRESENTING WITH LIMB PAIN

Two children are reported with hydrocephalus and aqueduct stenosis who presented with back and limb pains. Neither had the classic symptoms of headache and vomiting. The children had enlarged heads and later de veloped ataxic gait and papilloedema. The cause of the pains is uncert ain but similar symptoms have been reported in subjects with benign in tracranial hypertension and may relate to spinal nerve root pouch dist ension. Operative ventricular drainage resulted in rapid improvement o f all symptoms in both children.