congenital intraspinal cysts

Question 1

spinal arachnoid cyst genetic sybdroms

Answer 1

hereditart distichiasis, neurocutanous melanosis, and noonan sydrome - also with spinal dysraphisms- splitcord

Question 2

arachnoid cyst location

Answer 2

usually dorsal to spinal cord

Question 3

type of cells found on arachnoid cyst pathology

Answer 3

meningothelial cells

Question 4

location of neuroenteric cysts

Answer 4

intradural extramedullar space in the ventral cervical or throracic spine

Question 5

associated veterebral column anomolies

Answer 5

sacral agensis, block vertebraw, hemivertebra, klippel-feil, butter fly vertebrae

Question 6

embylogic origins

Answer 6

spliting of notocord with connection between endoder and ectoder, incomplete excalation of the notorcord, and ectopic spinal rests of endoderm

Question 7

pathology of neuroenteric cysts

Answer 7

thin walled epithelial layer with goblet cells, ciliated cells, and squamous epithelium

Question 8

dermoid and epidermoid cyst origin

Answer 8

rest of ectoderm during 3 to 5week of gestation with neural tube closes