A Case Of An Elderly Patient With Blake’s Pouch Cyst

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  • OHTA Hirotsugu
    Department of Neurosurgery, Moji medical center. Moji-ku, Kitakyushu 801-8502, Japan
  • KIYONO Junpei
    Department of Neurosurgery, Moji medical center. Moji-ku, Kitakyushu 801-8502, Japan
  • MUROYA Yu
    Department of Neurosurgery, Kitakyushu General Hospital. Kokurakita-ku, Kitakyushu 802-8517, Japan
  • YAMAMOTO Junkoh
    Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health Japan. Yahatanishi-ku, Kitakyushu 807-8555, Japan

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  • 壮年期発症のBlake’s pouch cystの1手術例
  • ソウネンキ ハッショウ ノ Blake's pouch cyst ノ 1 シュジュツレイ

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Abstract

Blake’s pouch cyst is a congenital disease in which the ventricle enlargement is a non-communicating hydrocephalus. Some elderly patients have a process of the idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (communicating hydrocephalus). We report an elderly patient with Blake’s pouch cyst. A 68-year-old man visited our hospital with a gait disturbance that had begun 2 years previously but had become aggravated. He did not have dementia or urinary disturbance. CT scan and MRI showed the hydrocephalus included an IV ventricle, and the cerebrocerebellar fluid space in the posterior fossa was large. A Tap test was positive, so we attempted lumboperitoneal shunt, and his gait disturbance improved.

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  • Journal of UOEH

    Journal of UOEH 45 (2), 129-132, 2023-06-01

    The University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan

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