Choroidal fissure cerebrospinal fluid-containing cysts: case series, anatomical consideration, and review of the literature

de Jong, Lars; Thewissen, Liesbeth; van Loon, Johan; Van Calenbergh, Frank

doi:10.1016/j.wneu.2010.12.056

Choroidal fissure cerebrospinal fluid-containing cysts: case series, anatomical consideration, and review of the literature

Author:

de Jong, Lars

Thewissen, Liesbeth ; van Loon, Johan ; Van Calenbergh, Frank

Keywords:

Adolescent, Arachnoid Cysts, Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity, Child, Cysts, Databases, Factual, Diagnosis, Differential, Epithelium, Eye Diseases, Functional Laterality, Headache, Humans, Infant, Learning Disorders, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Narcolepsy, Retrospective Studies, Treatment Outcome, Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Clinical Neurology, Surgery, Neurosciences & Neurology, Arachnoid cyst, Choroidal fissure, Neuroepithelial cyst, ARACHNOID CYST, NEUROEPITHELIAL CYSTS, HIPPOCAMPAL-FORMATION, MR CORRELATION, LIMBIC LOBE, PATHOGENESIS, SECTIONS, SEIZURE, Learning Disabilities, 1103 Clinical Sciences, 1109 Neurosciences, 3202 Clinical sciences, 3209 Neurosciences

Abstract:

Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)-containing cysts at the level of the choroidal fissure are rare embryological entities infrequently described in the literature because of their benign nature. On the occasion of a case series, we present an overview of the literature and discuss anatomical and embryological location, imaging characteristics, presenting symptoms, and treatment indication of these lesions.