Risk Factors for Arachnoid Cyst Hemorrhage

Abstract

Neurosurgeons at Primary Children's Medical Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, evaluated factors that are associated with rupture of arachnoid cysts (intracystic hemorrhage, subdural hematoma, or adjacent subdural hygroma) in children with previously asymptomatic arachnoid cysts.

Keywords

• arachnoid cysts
• intracystic hemorrhage
• subdural hematoma