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Neuroendoscopic surgery for the intraventricular arachnoid cyst in the lateral ventricle was described.

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Why is it important?

It brought a clear message that neuroendoscopic management is the first choice of surgical treatment of the intraventricular arachnoid cyst in the lateral ventricle. It also revealed the origin of those cysts came from the velum interpositum cistern.

Perspectives

Neuroendoscopic surgery for the intraventricular arachnoid cyst in the lateral ventricle is favorable and should be consider as the first line treatment. It is also important that the origin of those arachnoid cyst was revealed for the first time. It has been left unsolved and remained unknown.

Professor Nobuhito Morota
Kitasato University School of Medicine

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This page is a summary of: Pediatric intraventricular arachnoid cysts in the body of lateral ventricle: surgical outcome and its embryologic background, Child s Nervous System, August 2016, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-016-3203-2.
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