Intracranial laterally based supratentorial neurenteric cyst

Br J Radiol. 2004 Nov;77(923):963-5. doi: 10.1259/bjr/77185587.

Abstract

Neurenteric cysts are rare developmental cysts lined by endodermal derived epithelium. We present the case of a 68-year-old patient presenting with seizures who was found to have an extra-axial low density lesion with associated wall calcification on CT. Aspiration and biopsy of the cyst revealed a neurenteric cyst. Such lesions of the lateral supratentorial convexity are extremely rare and calcification has not been previously reported in these intracranial cysts.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Brain Neoplasms / complications
  • Brain Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Brain Neoplasms / surgery
  • Calcinosis / diagnostic imaging
  • Central Nervous System Cysts / complications
  • Central Nervous System Cysts / diagnostic imaging*
  • Central Nervous System Cysts / surgery
  • Craniotomy / methods
  • Female
  • Frontal Lobe
  • Humans
  • Radiography
  • Seizures / etiology