A Recurrent Cervical Neurenteric Cyst Treated Anteriorly: Safe, Gross-Total Excision Facilitated by Prophylactic Unilateral Vertebral Artery Exposure, Microdissection, and Spinal Cord Monitoring—A Case Report and Technical Note

• Published in: Case reports in orthopedics Vol. 2018; no. 2018; pp. 1 - 7
• Main Authors: Hiroi, Makoto, Kawazoe, Tateo, Tani, Toshikazu, Kida, Kazunobu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cairo, Egypt Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2018; Hindawi; John Wiley & Sons, Inc; Hindawi Limited
• Subjects: Case Report; Case reports; Cysts; Diseases; Neurosurgery; NMR; Nuclear magnetic resonance; Relapse; Spinal cord; Surgery; Veins & arteries

This study reports on a 67-year-old woman with partial Brown-Séquard syndrome due to a recurrent cervical neurenteric cyst at C3 to C4. The myelopathic symptoms reappeared 22 years after a previous shunting operation performed posteriorly with a silicone tube connecting the intradural cervical cyst...