Prokopienko Marek, Kunert Przemysław, Marchel Andrzej
Department of Neurosurgery, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
J Neurol Surg A Cent Eur Neurosurg. 2013 Dec;74 Suppl 1:e198-202. doi: 10.1055/s-0033-1342931. Epub 2013 May 21.
We report the case of a 36-year-old woman with a Sylvian fissure arachnoid cyst, which diminished after head trauma and minor hemorrhage into the cyst. We discuss the relationship between the cyst volume reduction and the head trauma to determine the main mechanism of this self-healing process.