Main description:

Arachnoid Cysts: Clinical and Surgical Management gives a broad and updated presentation of the condition, including symptomatology, diagnostics, management and treatment. The book covers the effects of surgical treatment on clinical symptoms and the effects cysts have on cognition, as well as cognitive improvement after surgical cyst decompression. This book is written for researchers, residents and clinical practitioners in clinical neuroscience, neurology, neurosurgery, neuroradiology and pediatrics.

Contents:

Clinical diagnostic aspects 1. Intracranial arachnoid cysts and headache 2. Clinical presentation, symptoms and complaints: Dizziness/vertigo 3. Intracranial arachnoid cysts and epilepsy 4. Clinical presentation, symptoms and complaints: Arachnoid cysts and visual function 5. Clinical presentation, symptoms and complaints: What matters: size, location, or intracystic pressure? 6. Intracranial arachnoid cysts and mental functions

Surgical aspects 7. Controversies in the management of intracranial arachnoid cysts 8. Indications. Which cysts should be operated: Pros and Cons: Clinical, radiological, and neuropsychological evidence in favour of surgical decompression 9. Surgical techniques, results, and complications: Microsurgical techniques - traditional craniotomy. 10. Microsurgical Techniques - The Keyhole Approach 11. Endoscopic techniques in arachnoid cyst surgery 12. Shunt techniques - Cystoperitoneal shunt 13. Surgical techniques, results, and complications: Shunt techniques - Cystosubdural shunt. Cystoventricular shunt/stent 14. Overdrainage syndromes in shunted arachnoid cysts 15. Arachnoid cyst, anesthesia and postoperative management 16. Pre- and postoperative quality of life in arachnoid cyst patients 17. Pediatric Spinal Arachnoid Cysts, part 1 18. Pediatric Intracranial Arachnoid Systs, part 2 19. Spinal arachnoid cysts 20. Arachnoid cysts and risk of sport-related brain injury