Arachnoid Cysts

Research Conducted by R. Sachdeva and Co-Researchers Has Updated Our Knowledge about Arachnoid Cysts

Published in Pain and Central Nervous System Week, January 30th, 2012

2012 JAN 30 -- According to the authors of recent research from Cleveland, Ohio, "A 12-year-old girl presented with several years of progressive painless proptosis and orbital fullness. On imaging, she was found to have marked expansion and remodeling centered in the right greater wing of the sphenoid bone with an adjacent middle cranial fossa arachnoid cyst."

"A clinical diagnosis of intradiploic arachnoid cyst was made. This entity was benign, and other ophthalmic and neurologic signs or symptoms were absent. Our patient was observed without surgical intervention. To our knowledge, this is the first such case reported in a child," wrote R. Sachdeva and...

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