Arachnoid cysts: differential diagnosis

Evidence-based neurology checklist on arachnoid cysts: differential diagnosis: Developmental cysts Developmental Blake pouches Colloid cysts Dandy Walker malformation Glial cysts Pineal cysts Poroencephalic cysts Rathke’s cleft cysts Cerebellar hypoplasia Mega cisterna magna Vermian cysts…

Developmental cysts

  • Developmental
  • Blake pouches
  • Colloid cysts
  • Dandy Walker malformation
  • Glial cysts
  • Pineal cysts
  • Poroencephalic cysts
  • Rathke’s cleft cysts
  • Cerebellar hypoplasia
  • Mega cisterna magna
  • Vermian cysts

Infective cysts

Tumour cysts

Metabolic disorders cysts

Non-cystic lesions

References

  1. Erdincler P, Kaynar MY, Bozkus H, Ciplak N. Posterior fossa arachnoid cysts. Br J Neurosurg 1999; 13:10-17.
  2. Grossman RI, Yousem DM. The Requisites Neuroradiology 2nd edition Mosby Philadelphia 2003 p118.
  3. Pereira RG, Ribeiro BNF, Hollanda RTL, de Almeida LB, Simeão TB, Marchiori E. Non-neoplastic intracranial cystic lesions: not everything is an arachnoid cyst. Radiol Bras 2021; 54:49-55. 
  4. Chanclud J, Valence S, Perre SV, et al. Prenatal diagnosis of vermian cyst: a new type of posterior fossa cyst. Pediatr Radiol 2023; 53:461-469.
  5. Bayrakli F, Okten AI, Kartal U, et al. Intracranial arachnoid cyst family with autosomal recessive trait mapped to chromosome 6q22.31-23.2. Acta Neurochir (Wien) 2012; 154:1287-1292.
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