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Neuroendoscopic techniques in the treatment of arachnoid cysts in children and comparison with other operative methods

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Objective: The authors intended to evaluate the application of neuroendoscopic techniques for the treatment of arachnoid cysts in children and compare it with other operative methods. Methods: The analysis covered the results of treatment of 44 children with arachnoid cysts who were subjected to neuroendoscopic procedures and 62 patients who underwent other operations. Results: The neuroendoscopic treatment of arachnoid cysts was very effective because of low rate of reoperative treatment (six out of 44 patients), no need to change the operative method (40 effective out of total 44 operative procedures), and low rate of persistent worsening (none of 44 patients worsened). Conclusions: Summing up all the mentioned aspects of neuroendoscopic techniques, the neuroendoscopic techniques were the most suitable operative procedures in the treatment of arachnoid cysts in the presented group of patients, providing that the connection between the lumen of the arachnoid cyst and the cerebrospinal fluid cisterns was of good quality.

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The work was supported by the grant No 4P05E05016 of the Polish Academy of Science. The paper was presented at the ISGNE meeting in 2003.

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  1. The Department of Neurosurgery, Research Institute of Polish Mother’s Memorial Hospital (RIPMMH), Rzgowska 281/289, Łódź 93-338, Poland

    Emilia Nowosławska, Lech Polis, Wanda Mikołajczyk, Jacek Krawczyk, Wojciech Szymański, Krzysztof Zakrzewski, Joanna Podciechowska & Bartosz Polis

  2. The Department of Radiology, Research Institute of Polish Mother’s Memorial Hospital, Rzgowska 281/289, Łódź 93-338, Poland

    Danuta Kaniewska

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Nowosławska, E., Polis, L., Kaniewska, D. et al. Neuroendoscopic techniques in the treatment of arachnoid cysts in children and comparison with other operative methods. Childs Nerv Syst 22, 599–604 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00381-006-0068-9

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