Giant arachnoid cyst in adult presented with secondary epileptiform activity

Artem Stanishevskiy; Shamil Gizatullin; Denis Davydov

doi:10.25259/SNI_617_2021

Giant arachnoid cyst in adult presented with secondary epileptiform activity

Surg Neurol Int. 2021 Aug 24:12:418. doi: 10.25259/SNI_617_2021. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Artem Stanishevskiy¹, Shamil Gizatullin¹, Denis Davydov¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Neurosurgery, Main Military Hospital named after N.N. Burdenko, Moscow, Russia.

Abstract

Background: Current studies contain controversies regarding indications and preferable surgical techniques for arachnoid cysts.

Case description: In this paper we present case report of giant arachnoid cyst of right frontal lobe in young left-handed adult with headache, MRI sings of brain compression and epileptiform activity on EEG, treated by microsurgical cystostomy.

Conclusion: We add a case of young adult with tension headaches and possible sub-clinical seizures due to arachnoid cyst, whose symptoms disappeared after surgical management of the cyst, including normalization of EEG.

Keywords: Adult; Arachnoid cyst; Cystostomy; Epilepsy; frontal lobe.

Publication types

Case Reports