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Unusual association of diseases/symptoms
CASE REPORT
Rare occurrence of a huge traumatic extradural haematoma in a patient with an ipsilateral sylvian arachnoid cyst
  1. Haider Tawfeeq Alhillo1,
  2. Hatem Azet Sadik2,
  3. Teeba N Gheni3 and
  4. Samer S Hoz1
  1. 1 Department of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgical Teaching Hospital, Baghdad, Iraq
  2. 2 School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
  3. 3 College of Medicine, Al-Anbar University, Anbar, Iraq
  1. Correspondence to Hatem Azet Sadik, hatemsadik{at}gmail.com

Abstract

A man, a teenage victim of an assault to the head, presented to the emergency department, in Baghdad, with a Glasgow Coma Score of 4/15 (E1 M2 V1) and total right-sided paralysis. CT of the brain revealed a large-left sided frontotemporoparietal extradural haematoma with the presence of an ipsilateral sylvian arachnoid cyst deep to the haematoma. Urgent surgical evacuation of the haematoma was performed, leaving the arachnoid cyst intact. The patient improved and gained full consciousness within 4 days.

Three years after the initial trauma, the patient has remained well. This case required a thorough discussion of the surgical options, in particular whether to intervene with the associated cyst, and whether any intervention with the cyst should be performed in the same or future operations. This dilemma forms the basis of the discussion in the following report.

  • trauma CNS /PNS
  • neurosurgery

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2018-227525

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    Footnotes

    • Contributors Study conception and design: HTA and SSH. Acquisition of data: HTA, SSH and TNG. Analysis/interpretation of data and review of literature: HAS, TNG and SSH. Drafting of manuscript and critical revisions: HAS and SSH.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient consent Obtained.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.