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Congenital spinal extradural cysts, anterior sacral meningocoele and intraspinal root cysts

Different manifestations of the same condition? Report of seven cases

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A series of seven patients is reported, in whom various combinations of spinal extradural cysts, anterior sacral and intrasacral meningocoele and intraspinal root cysts occurred. These malformations occurring in combinations in the same patient are not true examples of dysraphism, but are due rather to weak areas of the dural covering. Such weakness leads to different manifestations depending upon the age of the patient and on whichever region of the dural sac is weak. When these cystic lesions give symptoms they should be treated operatively. If the correct diagnosis is made, the prognosis is good.

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  1. J. H. Trumpy

    Present address: The Neurosurgical Department, Ullevål Hospital, Oslo, Norway

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  1. The Neurosurgical Department, Ullevål Hospital, Oslo, Norway

    A. K. Banerji & B. Prakash

  2. Department of Neurosurgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

    J. H. Trumpy, A. K. Banerji & B. Prakash

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Trumpy, J.H., Banerji, A.K. & Prakash, B. Congenital spinal extradural cysts, anterior sacral meningocoele and intraspinal root cysts. Acta neurochir 29, 177–193 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01406169

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