Cystic suprasellar and retrosellar arachnoiditis: a clinical and pathologic follow-up case report
Iraci, G.; Giordano, R.; Gerosa, M.; Zampieri, P.; Tomazzoli-Gerosa, L.
Annals of Ophthalmology 11(8): 1175-1179
1979
ISSN/ISBN: 0003-4886 PMID: 556144 Document Number: 144660
A patient, previously operated upon for a supra-and retrosellar arachnoid cyst, had again to undergo surgery for a recurrence and died in the early postoperative course. The gross and microscopic pathologic evidence obtained through necropsy is described: it seems to confirm the inflammatory nature of the arachnoid cyst, thus legitimating the term cystic optochiasmatic arachnoiditis used for the description of the same case in a previous report.