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Congenital interdural arachnoid cyst of the tentorium cerebelli

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Abstract

Background

Intracranial interdural cyst is a rare lesion. The exact pathophysiology of these cysts remains unknown.

Clinical presentation

We report an infant with interdural cyst of the tentorium cerebelli. Although the cyst mimicked an arachnoid cyst on pre- and postnatal magnetic resonance images, lateral suboccipital craniotomy revealed the cyst within the tentorium. Fenestration on the infratentorial side was performed with successful results. Histologically, the inner surface of the cyst was lined with arachnoid cells.

Conclusion

We report detailed neuroradiological, intraoperative, and histological findings, and discuss the pathophysiology of the cyst in this case.

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Acknowledgments

We thank Drs. Nobuko Kawamura and Naoyuki Nakanami for supporting our study. We also thank Rebecca Tollefson, DVM, from Edanz Group (www.edanzediting.com/ac) for editing a draft of this manuscript.

Funding

This work was partly supported by the Research Foundation of Fukuoka Children’s Hospital.

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, Fukuoka Children’s Hospital, 5-1-1 Kashii-teriha, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 813-0017, Japan

    Nobuya Murakami & Takato Morioka

  2. Department of Neuropathology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

    Satoshi O. Suzuki

  3. Department of Neonatology, Fukuoka Children’s Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan

    Yasushi Takahata

  4. Department of Neurosurgery, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

    Masahiro Mizoguchi

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Murakami, N., Morioka, T., Suzuki, S.O. et al. Congenital interdural arachnoid cyst of the tentorium cerebelli. Childs Nerv Syst 36, 1071–1074 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00381-019-04404-9

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