Tarlov cysts: report of four cases
Sá, Márcia.Cristina.da.Paixão.Rodrigues.Miranda.de.; Sá, R.Carlos.Ferreira.Leite.Miranda.de.
Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria 62(3a): 689-694
2004
ISSN/ISBN: 0004-282X PMID: 15334232 Document Number: 582509
Four perineurial cysts cases (Tarlov's cysts) are reported. The purpose of this study is to describe and to compare them with data from a literature review. The evaluation was performed among 88 adult patients with symptoms of radiculopathy, sacral pain, low back pain. Four patients revealed Tarlov's cysts (4.5%). The diagnosis was made by magnetic resonance imaging. Four cases underwent sacral laminectomy. Following surgery, the claudication pain resolved with no motor or sensory deficits. Tarlov's cysts should be considered as a differential diagnosis of sacral radiculopathy, sacral or lumbar pain syndromes and mainly to the lumbar disc prolapse. The goal of the surgical treatment is to relieve the neural compression and stop bone erosion.