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Supratentorial neuroenteric cyst in children: a case report and brief literature review

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Neurenteric cysts are rare developmental lesions typically found outside the central nervous system but when they do, we most likely find them in a spinal (cervical or dorsal) intradural extramedular location, often associated with dysraphism. The more unusual intracranial cases have been published because of its rarity, occurring mostly as a posterior fossa extra-axial cyst, in adults. Supratentorial cases are distinctly infrequent, especially in children, resulting in few case reports and even fewer case reviews. We describe a case of a child with a supratentorial neurenteric cyst and present a brief review of the literature about these cysts in children, a noticeable gap in the literature.

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, Hospital Egas Moniz – Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Ocidental EPE, Rua da Junqueira 126, 1349-019, Lisbon, Portugal

    Lídia Nunes Dias

  2. Department of Neurosurgery, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Barcelona, Spain

    Patricia Puerta Roldán, Antonio Guillén Quesada & José Hinojosa

  3. Department of Pathology, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Barcelona, Spain

    Mariona Suñol Capella

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Nunes Dias, L., Puerta Roldán, P., Guillén Quesada, A. et al. Supratentorial neuroenteric cyst in children: a case report and brief literature review. Childs Nerv Syst 35, 2227–2231 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00381-019-04190-4

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