Case report: a giant arachnoid cyst masking Alzheimer's disease.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Intracranial arachnoid cysts are usually benign congenital findings of neuroimaging modalities, sometimes however, leading to focal neurological and psychiatric comorbidities. Whether primarily clinically silent cysts may become causally involved in cognitive decline in old age is neither well examined nor understood.

Case presentation

A 66-year old caucasian man presenting with a giant left-hemispheric frontotemporal cyst without progression of size, presented with slowly progressive cognitive decline. Neuropsychological assessment revealed an amnestic mild cognitive impairment (MCI) without further neurological or psychiatric symptoms. The patient showed mild medio-temporal lobe atrophy on structural MRI. Diffusion tensor and functional magnetic resonance imagin

SUBMITTER: Wahl AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6728996 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature