低頭蓋内圧症状で発症し胸椎側方髄膜瘤類似所見を呈した外傷性くも膜下腔-胸腔瘻孔の 1 例

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Lateral thoracic meningocele is rare and usually associated with neurofibromatosis. Their etiology is still controversial. Also spontaneous leakage of the spinal cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is rare, but it is increasingly recognized as a cause of intracranial hypotension. The authors report a case of traumatic subarachnoid-pleural fistula mimicking lateral thoracic meningocele. A 52-year-old woman presented the symptom of intracranial hypotension secondary to a leakage of CSF originating from traumatic thoracic pseudo-meningocele. Most cases of intracranial hypotension resolve spontaneously, but in cases with protracted symptoms we suggest that surgical treatment can be accomplished with satisfactory results. We postulate the role of trauma in development of lateral thoracic meningocele in some patients without neurofibromatosis.
日本脊髄外科学会の論文
2001-11-30