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Neuropediatrics 2011; 42(03): 116-118
DOI: 10.1055/s-0031-1279786
Short Communication
Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York

Spontaneous Hemorrhage into a Neurenteric Cyst of the Cerebellar Vermis

M.R. Khalatbari
1   Department of Neurosurgery, Arad Hospital, Tehran, Iran
,
Y. Moharamzad
1   Department of Neurosurgery, Arad Hospital, Tehran, Iran
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Received: 02 March 2011

Accepted: 25 May 2011

Publication Date:
20 June 2011 (online)

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Abstract

Neurenteric cysts are rare benign developmental lesions of the central nervous system which are lined by endodermal cell-derived epithelium. Here we present a 17-year-old male who presented with acute onset headache and cerebellar ataxia. He was found to have a hyperdense lesion of the cerebellar vermis on CT scan. The lesion was hyperintense on T1-weighted and hypointense on T2-weighted MR images. Surgical resection of the cyst revealed hemorrhage into the neurenteric cyst.

Key words

neurenteric cyst - cerebellar vermis - posterior fossa - hemorrhage
 

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