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Case Reports
. 2004 Oct;20(10):757-60.
doi: 10.1007/s00381-003-0903-1.

Anterior cervical arachnoid cyst presenting with traumatic quadriplegia

Natarajan Muthukumar  1
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Case Reports

Anterior cervical arachnoid cyst presenting with traumatic quadriplegia

Natarajan Muthukumar. Childs Nerv Syst. 2004 Oct.

Abstract

Introduction: Intraduralspinal arachnoid cysts are rare. Rarer still are cysts located anteriorto the cervical spinal cord. To date,only 10 such cases have been re-ported in the English-language liter-ature.

Case report: Two cases ofanterior cervical arachnoid cysts thatpresented as traumatic quadriplegiaare reported.

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