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ArticleBMJ case reports2018

Rare occurrence of a huge traumatic extradural haematoma in a patient with an ipsilateral sylvian arachnoid cyst.

Haider Tawfeeq Alhillo, Hatem Azet Sadik, Teeba N Gheni, Samer S Hoz

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Article in BMJ case reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Haider Tawfeeq AlhilloDepartment of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgical Teaching Hospital, Baghdad, Iraq.
Hatem Azet SadikSchool of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Teeba N GheniCollege of Medicine, Al-Anbar University, Anbar, Iraq.
Samer S HozDepartment of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgical Teaching Hospital, Baghdad, Iraq.
Baghdad Medical City · IQUniversity of Anbar · IQUniversity of Cambridge · GB

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A man, a teenage victim of an assault to the head, presented to the emergency department, in Baghdad, with a Glasgow Coma Score of 4/15 (E1 M2 V1) and total right-sided paralysis. CT of the brain revealed a large-left sided frontotemporoparietal extradural haematoma with the presence of an ipsilateral sylvian arachnoid cyst deep to the haematoma. Urgent surgical evacuation of the haematoma was performed, leaving the arachnoid cyst intact. The patient improved and gained full consciousness within 4 days.Three years after the initial trauma, the patient has remained well. This case required a thorough discussion of the surgical options, in particular whether to intervene with the associated cyst, and whether any intervention with the cyst should be performed in the same or future operations. This dilemma forms the basis of the discussion in the following report.

Indexed as

AdolescentArachnoid CystsDiagnosis, DifferentialHead Injuries, ClosedHematoma, Epidural, CranialHumansMaleTomography, X-Ray Computedneurosurgerytrauma CNS /PNS

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PMID30567181
PMCPMC6301488
OpenAlexW2904484925

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