cysts/vomiting

Bilious vomiting is a relevant sign in neonates that requires immediate evaluation and diagnosis. A duplication of the intestinal tract is a possible cause of obstruction if located distally to the major duodenal papilla of Vater and most of them involve the jejunum, stomach, or colon. Duodenal

Neurenteric cysts are rare, benign congenital lesions of the central nervous system. We present a case of a 59-year-old woman with intractable daily nausea and vomiting with a fourth ventricular cyst adjacent to the area postrema. This was surgically resected leading to complete symptom resolution.

In an infant presenting with a mass in the abdomen and non-bilious vomiting, duplication cyst needs to be considered in the list of differential diagnoses. Gastric duplication cyst is an uncommon occurrence in children. Diagnosis is based on clinical findings and imaging features. Surgical excision

Recently, endoscopic procedures have been recommended as the first surgical option for cerebral arachnoid cyst (AC). The author reports seven ACs treated endoscopically and discuss the role of endoscopic fenestration. The age of the patients ranged from two to 62 years. Three ACs were located in the

Nine cases of symptomatic Rathke's cleft cyst are reported. Their most frequent signs and symptoms included headache, chiasmal syndrome and hypopituitarism, while one of the cases developed a sudden onset of headache and vomiting following diabetes insipidus. Endocrinological findings showed a

A six-weeks old infant presented with vomiting, malnutrition, pneumonia and signs of biliary obstruction. The liver was enlarged; ultrasonography showed three large cysts in the right lobe. The cysts were thought to be congenital. Before we could differentiate them from other causes they disappeared

OBJECTIVE To evaluate neuronavigation-guided ventriculoscopic technique in the treatment of arachnoid cysts in the lateral ventricle. METHODS Between January 2008 to November 2011, twenty-one neuronavigationguided ventriculoscopic surgery were performed for the treatment of symptomatic arachnoid

The authors report 6 patients with arachnoid cysts treated endoscopically. The series includes 6 patients with temporobasal arachnoid cysts. The age of the patients at the time of diagnosis ranged from 5 to 71 years. The patients' symptoms included headache, seizures, vomiting, nausea, dizziness,

Arachnoid cysts of the middle cranial fossa may manifest themselves in several different ways. Most often they remain asymptomatic and are only diagnosed incidentally on computed tomography or at autopsy. When they are symptomatic, headache, nausea, vomiting and seizures are most common in the

Duplication of the digestive tract is a very rare malformation in children whereas the congenital pyloric duplication is extremely rare, few cases being described in the literature. We present the case of a male infant, aged seven days, who was diagnosed at 17 weeks of gestation with a cystic mass