Microsurgical excision of a compressive thoracic arachnoid cyst: Technical pearls

Abstract

Abstract The key clinical message of this case is that it is critical to differentiate between arachnoid cysts and spinal cord herniation. This is performed by evaluating the ventral dura to assure that it remains intact.

Keywords

• back pain
• hydromyelia
• spine
• syrinx
• thoracic arachnoid cyst