Intracranial, intradural aneurysmal bone cyst

Clin Imaging. 2015 Mar-Apr;39(2):297-9. doi: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2014.11.004. Epub 2014 Nov 18.

Abstract

Aneurysmal bone cysts (ABCs) are benign, expansile, blood-filled, osteolytic lesions with internal septations that may be intraosseous or extraosseous. The cysts may cause local mass effect, and changes in the regional vascular supply necessitating intervention. A case of an intracranial, intradural ABC in a young male patient with progressively severe headaches is presented. This is only the third recorded intradural case, the majority of these rare lesions being extracranial and only a minute fraction intracranial.

Keywords: Aneurysmal bone cyst; Imaging; Intracranial; Intradural; Pathology.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Bone Cysts, Aneurysmal / complications
  • Bone Cysts, Aneurysmal / diagnosis*
  • Bone Cysts, Aneurysmal / surgery
  • Brain / diagnostic imaging
  • Brain / pathology
  • Brain Diseases / complications
  • Brain Diseases / diagnosis*
  • Brain Diseases / surgery
  • Dura Mater / diagnostic imaging
  • Dura Mater / pathology
  • Headache / etiology
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Radiography