Author(s)

Youssouf Sogoba^1*, Boubacar Sogoba¹, Seybou Hassane Diallo², Drissa Kanikomo¹, Djenè Kourouma¹, Oumar Coulibaly³, Issa Amadou⁴, Moustapha Mangané⁵, Hamidou Almeimoune⁵, Madani Thierno Diop⁵, Youssoufa Maiga², Broulaye Samaké⁵, Djibo M. Diango⁵

¹Department of Neurosurgery, Hopital Gabriel Touré, Bamako, Mali.
²Department of Neurology, Hopital Gabriel Touré, Bamako, Mali.
³Department of Neurosurgery, Hopital du Mali, Bamako, Mali.
⁴Department of Pediatric Surgery, Hopital Gabriel Touré, Bamako, Mali.
⁵Department of Anesthesiology and ICU, Hopital Gabriel Touré, Bamako, Mali.

Intracranial arachnoid cysts (IAC) are benign lesions containing cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). Most of them are clinically silent and remain static in size. However some may present with mild and slow progressive symptoms caused by the cyst. The authors present the case of 54-year-old woman who presented with acute symptoms of severe headache, vomiting, and gait disturbance of 2 day’s duration. She had no history of head trauma. On admission, neurological examination revealed that the patient had a Glasgow Coma Scale score of 15, and a left side hemiplegia. A CT scan revealed a hypodense fluid collection in the right frontoparietal region that mimicked an arachnoid cyst. The symptoms were improved after an emergency marsupialisation via craniotomy.

Arachnoid Cyst, Neuroendoscopy, Microsurgical Fenestration

Sogoba, Y. , Sogoba, B. , Diallo, S. , Kanikomo, D. , Kourouma, D. , Coulibaly, O. , Amadou, I. , Mangané, M. , Almeimoune, H. , Diop, M. , Maiga, Y. , Samaké, B. and Diango, D. (2018) Giant Intracranial Arachnoid Cyst Causing Acute Neurologic Symptoms. World Journal of Neuroscience, 8, 363-369. doi: 10.4236/wjns.2018.83029.