Is skull fracture necessary for developing an intradiploic pseudomeningocele as a complication of head injury in adulthood?

MENKU A., Koc R. K., TUCER B., AKDEMIR H.

ACTA NEUROCHIRURGICA, vol.146, no.6, pp.623-627, 2004 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 146 Issue: 6
  • Publication Date: 2004
  • Doi Number: 10.1007/s00701-004-0263-y
  • Journal Name: ACTA NEUROCHIRURGICA
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.623-627
  • Erciyes University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

We report the case of an adult with a posttraumatic intradiploic pseudomeningocele which caused an expanded osteolytic skull lesion. Local pain and swelling, the only symptoms of the lesion, regressed after surgery. Intradiploic pseudomeningocele must be distinguished from intradiploic leptomeningeal cyst, which is of traumatic origin or arachnoid cyst and epidermoid cyst, which are of congenital origin. We also discuss the development of intradiploic pseudomeningoceleafter head trauma without skull fracture in adulthood and suggest a possible mechanism.