A complicated case of an intracranial epidermoid cyst
Intracranial vasospasm and ischaemic cerebrovascular accident (CVA) following surgical removal of intracranial tumours are rare. To our knowledge, vasospasm has been reported in only two cases following surgery, with one occurring two weeks post-surgery and the other after four days. However, ischae...
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| author | Abdelkader Dib Johny Salem Marwan Haddad Omar Awar Mirna Fares |
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| description | Intracranial vasospasm and ischaemic cerebrovascular accident (CVA) following surgical removal of intracranial tumours are rare. To our knowledge, vasospasm has been reported in only two cases following surgery, with one occurring two weeks post-surgery and the other after four days. However, ischaemic CVA following surgery has not been previously reported. We present a case in which vasospasm resulted in cerebral infarction immediately postoperatively. MRI and serial magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) revealed no flow in the internal carotid artery and middle cerebral artery, with ultrasound showing multiple thrombi in the internal carotid artery and stenotic features in the left middle cerebral artery. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-e7272a89eb5d4d41940962e997320e152025-02-04T13:37:20ZengSMC MEDIA SRLEuropean Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine2284-25942025-01-0110.12890/2025_0051214656A complicated case of an intracranial epidermoid cystAbdelkader Dib0Johny Salem1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3693-5089Marwan Haddad2Omar Awar3Mirna Fares4Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Balamand, Beirut, LebanonDepartment of Gastroenterology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Balamand, Beirut, LebanonDepartment of Radiology, University of Balamand, Dekweneh-BeirutDepartment of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Balamand, Beirut, LebanonDepartment of Pulmonary Medicine, University of Balamand, Dekweneh-BeirutIntracranial vasospasm and ischaemic cerebrovascular accident (CVA) following surgical removal of intracranial tumours are rare. To our knowledge, vasospasm has been reported in only two cases following surgery, with one occurring two weeks post-surgery and the other after four days. However, ischaemic CVA following surgery has not been previously reported. We present a case in which vasospasm resulted in cerebral infarction immediately postoperatively. MRI and serial magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) revealed no flow in the internal carotid artery and middle cerebral artery, with ultrasound showing multiple thrombi in the internal carotid artery and stenotic features in the left middle cerebral artery.https://www.ejcrim.com/index.php/EJCRIM/article/view/5121epidermoid cystintracranialvasospasmcerebrovascular injury |
| spellingShingle | Abdelkader Dib Johny Salem Marwan Haddad Omar Awar Mirna Fares A complicated case of an intracranial epidermoid cyst European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine epidermoid cyst intracranial vasospasm cerebrovascular injury |
| title | A complicated case of an intracranial epidermoid cyst |
| title_full | A complicated case of an intracranial epidermoid cyst |
| title_fullStr | A complicated case of an intracranial epidermoid cyst |
| title_full_unstemmed | A complicated case of an intracranial epidermoid cyst |
| title_short | A complicated case of an intracranial epidermoid cyst |
| title_sort | complicated case of an intracranial epidermoid cyst |
| topic | epidermoid cyst intracranial vasospasm cerebrovascular injury |
| url | https://www.ejcrim.com/index.php/EJCRIM/article/view/5121 |
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