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It is rare for a patient with a dermoid cyst (DC) to present with taste dysfunction. A 58-year-old man presented with an altered sense of taste. Magnetic resonance imaging of the brain showed a mass lesion in the right insula with compression effect. The tumour was resected and was found to be a DC. The postoperative course was uneventful, and the patient resumed his usual taste sensation within the early postoperative period. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of a sylvian cistern DC that presented with dysgeusia.
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Kocaeli, H., Korfalı, E., Doğan, Ş. et al. Sylvian cistern dermoid cyst presenting with dysgeusia. Acta Neurochir 151, 561–563 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00701-009-0261-1
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