Thoracolumbar extradural arachnoid cysts: a study of 14 consecutive cases

• Published in: Acta neurochirurgica Vol. 154; no. 2; pp. 341 - 348
• Main Authors: Oh, Jae Keun, Lee, Dong Youp, Kim, Tae Yup, Yi, Seong, Ha, Yoon, Kim, Keung Nyun, Shin, Hyunchul, Kim, Dong Seok, Yoon, Do Heum
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Vienna Springer Vienna 01.02.2012; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Arachnoid; Arachnoid Cysts - diagnosis; Arachnoid Cysts - surgery; Cerebrospinal fluid; Child; Clinical Article; Communication; Cysts; Female; Hematoma; Humans; Interventional Radiology; Laminectomy; Leakage; Leg; Lumbar Vertebrae - diagnostic imaging; Lumbar Vertebrae - surgery; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; medical records; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Middle Aged; Minimally Invasive Surgery; Nerves; Neurology; Neuroradiology; Neurosurgery; Pain; Retrospective Studies; Spinal cord; Spinal Cord Diseases - diagnosis; Spinal Cord Diseases - surgery; Spine; subarachnoid space; Surgical Orthopedics; Thoracic Vertebrae - diagnostic imaging; Thoracic Vertebrae - surgery; Tomography, X-Ray Computed; Treatment Outcome; Young Adult; Extradural; Arachnoid cyst; Clinical outcome; Thoracolumbar

Background To investigate characteristic clinical and radiological features of extradural arachnoid cysts (EDACs) in the thoracolumbar region, a retrospective review of medical records and imaging studies was performed. EDACs are well known but relatively rare lesions in the thoracolumbar spinal can...