Incomplete Partition Type I
Cystic Cochleovestibular Malformation
"Figure of 8 appearance"
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☢️ 🍿Radiation-induced cavernous malformations along the cauda equina nerve roots can mimic leptomeningeal disease!
🔷Helpful clues:
1️⃣Negative CSF studies
2️⃣Stability over time
3️⃣Radiation scars
4️⃣Lack of findings outside the radiation field
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👨🦰32-year-old male with fever (up to 105°F) and altered mental status for 6 days. History of heavy alcohol and tobacco use. GCS 10.
🤦♂️Neck rigidity on exam.
💉CSF: glucose 1 mg/dL, protein 291 mg/dL, neutrophilic pleocytosis.
What’s your diagnosis?
💡🧠Blake’s pouch cyst causes obstructive hydrocephalus with dilatation of the fourth, third, and lateral ventricles, due to failed opening of the foramen of Magendie.
🫂Case courtesy of Bouhouche Abdeldjalil, from the case https://t.co/GpDD5XS1i2