Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Sturge Weber Syndrome With Arachnoid Cyst-CT





Sturge-Weber syndrome is one of the neurocutaneous syndromes. It is a rare, nonfamiliar disease that is characterized by facial port-wine stain, leptomeningeal angiomatosis, choroidal angioma, buphthalmos, intracranial calcification, cerebral atrophy, mental retardation, glaucoma, seizures and hemiparesis.
This is 3-year-old boy who had seizures with CT findings consistent with Sturge-Weber syndrome who had in addition temporal arachnoid cyst which is an uncommonly reported association.

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