Kawamoto Hitoshi, Ikawa Fusao, Imada Yasutaka, Katoh Humihide, Hasegawa Akihiro
Department of Neurosurgery, Shimane Prefectural Central Hospital, Izumo, Japan.
Childs Nerv Syst. 2007 May;23(5):591-4. doi: 10.1007/s00381-006-0257-6. Epub 2006 Nov 10.
We followed a two-step surgical strategy using miniature Ommaya's reservoirs in an early neonate with multiple large arachnoid cysts.
Percutaneous fluid aspiration through the reservoirs placed during the first operation permitted the infant to develop sufficiently to withstand the second, more radical cyst wall excision.