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¹University Hospital Zagreb, Department of Radiology, Zagreb, Croatia
²University Hospital Zagreb, Department of Neurology, Zagreb, Croatia
³University Hospital Zagreb, Department of Pathology, Zagreb, Croatia
⁴Special Hospital for Pulmonary Diseases, Intensive Care Unit, Zagreb, Croatia DOI : 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.4162-11.1 Colloid cysts are rare benign tumors of the third ventricle with diverse clinical presentation, which vary from incidentally found cysts to acute death. An uncommon hemorrhage in these cysts is a life threatening complication which can cause obstructive hydrocephalus with acute deterioration of the patient and sudden death. We present a case of 35-year-old man with large hemorrhagic colloid cyst of a third ventricle causing acute obstructive hydrocephalus even though magnetic resonance image with low T2 signal of the cyst suggested its clinically stable nature. Only 3 cases of in vivo diagnosed hemorrhagic colloid cysts have been reported in the literature. Keywords : Colloid cyst, Hemorrhage, Third ventricle, Hydrocephalus