A COMBINED SURGICAL APPROACH TO A SUPRASELLAR ARACHNOID CYST WITH PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY

M Memet ÖZEK; M. Necmettin PAMİR; Canan ERZEN

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Turkish Neurosurgery 1992 , Vol 2 , Num 4

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A COMBINED SURGICAL APPROACH TO A SUPRASELLAR ARACHNOID CYST WITH PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY

M Memet ÖZEK¹, M. Necmettin PAMİR¹, Canan ERZEN²

¹Marmara University School of Medicine Department of Neurosurgery, İstanbul·TÜRKİYE
²Marmara University School of Medicine Department of Radiology, İstanbul·TÜRKİYE Arachnoid cysts of the suprasellar region are quite rare. Precodous puberty may be one of the associated clinical findings of these lesions.

In this paper, we present a case of suprasellar arachnoid cyst presenting with precodous puberty which was treated using by combined subfrontal and transcallosal transvertricular surgery. Keywords : Arachnoid cyst. Suprasellar cyst. Precocious puberty. Computerized tomography

Corresponding author : Memet Özek