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A patient with agenesis of the temporal lobe and an arachnoid cyst was studied by radionuclide cisternography. The value of cisternography in establishing communication between the cyst and the subarachnoid space is emphasized.
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Ferreira, S., Jhingran, S.G. & Johnson, P.C. Radionuclide cisternography for the study of arachnoid cysts: A case report. Neuroradiology 19, 167–169 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00342394
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