ArticleJournal of neurology2016
Prevalence and symptoms of intracranial arachnoid cysts: a population-based study.
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- Neuropsychological Sequelae and Neuroradiological Correlates of Arachnoid Cysts in Adults: A Systematic Review.Brain sciences · 2026Review
- Cognition, FDG metabolism, and amyloid accumulation in relation to intracranial arachnoid cysts.Journal of neurology · 2025Article
- Postoperative secondary contralateral arachnoid cyst following rupture and bleeding of intracranial aneurysm: a case report.Frontiers in surgery · 2025Article
- Middle fossa arachnoid cyst fenestration for ruptured cysts associated with subdural collections: paediatric neurosurgery tertiary unit experience.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2024Article
- Article by Adolfsson et al. "Cognition in children with arachnoid cysts - A five-year follow-up after microneurosurgical fenestration".Acta neurochirurgica · 2024Article
- Hypoglossal Nerve Neuropathies-Analysis of Causes and Anatomical Background.Biomedicines · 2024Review
- Large intradiploic arachnoid cyst of the skull in child-a case report and new terminology proposition.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2024Article
- A Case of Subdural Hygroma due to a Ruptured Arachnoid Cyst in the Middle Cranial Fossa That Improved after Long-term Subdural Drainage: A Case Report and Review of the Literature.NMC case report journal · 2024Article
- A bibliometric analysis and visualization of normal pressure hydrocephalus.Frontiers in neurology · 2024Review
- Familial and syndromic forms of arachnoid cyst implicate genetic factors in disease pathogenesis.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2023Article
- Ruptured Sylvian arachnoid cysts: an update on a real problem.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2023Review
- The Efficacy and Tolerability of Electroconvulsive Therapy in Psychiatric Patients with Arachnoid Cysts: A Retrospective Chart Study.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- MR Brain Screening in ADPKD Patients : To Screen or not to Screen?Clinical neuroradiology · 2022Article
- Impaired visual acuity as an only symptom of shunt malfunction, long time after initial cyst-peritoneal shunting for arachnoid cyst: A case report.Surgical neurology international · 2022Article
- Effect comparison of neuroendoscopic vs. craniotomy in the treatment of adult intracranial arachnoid cyst.Frontiers in surgery · 2022Article
- Do arachnoid cysts grow? A retrospective volumetric study.Journal of neurology · 2021Article
- Space-occupying brain lesions, trauma-related tau astrogliopathy, and ARTAG: a report of two cases and a literature review.Acta neuropathologica communications · 2021Review
- Late onset epilepsia partialis continua in a middle-aged patient with huge arachnoid cyst.Caspian journal of internal medicine · 2021Article
- The efficacy of cystoperitoneal shunting for the surgical management of intracranial arachnoid cysts in the elderly: A systematic review of the literature.Surgical neurology international · 2021Review
- Case report: a giant arachnoid cyst masking Alzheimer's disease.BMC psychiatry · 2019Review
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Abstract
To investigate the prevalence of intracranial arachnoid cysts in a large population-based sample. We also aimed to assess the association between arachnoid cysts and cognitive impairment, depression, epilepsy, headache, dizziness, previous head trauma, hip fractures, and mortality. A population-based cohort and nested case-control study. The sample comprised representative populations (n = 1235) aged ≥ 70 years. All participants underwent baseline neuropsychiatric examinations, including computed tomography (CT) of the brain, between 1986 and 2000. All CT scans were examined for arachnoid cysts. Headache, dizziness, history of head trauma, dementia, depression, epilepsy, and hip fracture were assessed using data from clinical examinations, interviews and the Swedish hospital discharge register. Cognition was assessed using the Mini-Mental Status Examination, and depressive symptoms using the Montgomery-Åsberg Depression Rating Scale. Date of death was obtained from the National Swedish Death Registry. The prevalence of arachnoid cysts was 2.3 % (n = 29), with no significant difference between men and women. Probands with and without cysts had the same frequency of headache, dizziness, previous head trauma, cognitive impairment, and depressive symptoms. Furthermore, there were no differences regarding the prevalence of dementia, depression, epilepsy, or previous hip fracture. Arachnoid cysts were not associated with increased mortality. Arachnoid cysts are common incidental finding, with the same rate in men and women, and are probably asymptomatic. The lack of relation with symptoms like headache, dizziness and cognitive impairment suggest caution in ascribing symptoms to incidentally discovered arachnoid cysts and a restrictive attitude to treatment.
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