Sonaz Malekzadehlashkariani1, Isabel Wanke2,3, Daniel A Rüfenacht2, Diego San Millán4,5. 1. Unité de neuroradiologie, Service d'imagerie diagnostique et interventionnelle, Hôpital de Sion, CHVR, Avenue du Grand-Champsec 80, 1950, Sion, Switzerland. 2. Zentrum für Neuroradiologie, Klinik Hirslanden, Zurich, Switzerland. 3. Institutes für Diagnostische und Interventionelle Radiologie und Neuroradiologie, Universitätsklinikum Essen, Essen, Germany. 4. Unité de neuroradiologie, Service d'imagerie diagnostique et interventionnelle, Hôpital de Sion, CHVR, Avenue du Grand-Champsec 80, 1950, Sion, Switzerland. diego.san-millan-ruiz@hopitalvs.ch. 5. Zentrum für Neuroradiologie, Klinik Hirslanden, Zurich, Switzerland. diego.san-millan-ruiz@hopitalvs.ch.
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Brain herniations (BH) into arachnoid granulations (AG) in dural venous sinuses and calvarium have rarely been reported in the literature. METHODS: MRIs of 38 patients with BH into AG (BHAG) were retrospectively analyzed. Locations of BHAG, gyrus/lobe of the herniated brain, parenchymal abnormalities of the BH, and clinical and radiological conditions with raised intracranial pressure were recorded. RESULTS: Sixty-eight BHAG were found, by order of frequency, in the occipital squama (OS), transverse sinus (TS), lateral lacuna of the superior sagittal sinus (LLSSS), and straight sinus (SS), with cerebellar tissue being the most frequently involved in BHAG (94.5 % of OS, 55 % of TS, 100 % SS BHAG). Multiple BHAG were found in 58 % of the patients (up to five per patient). Parenchymal signal and structural changes (SSCG) were observed in 46 % of BHAG (100 % were cerebellar). Three patients had pseudotumor cerebri (PTCS); one patient had only MRI signs of PTCS. Twenty-one percent of patients had intracranial conditions susceptible of increasing cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pressure other than PTCS. CONCLUSIONS: BHAG occurred in the OS, TS, LLSSS, and the SS. SSCG of the herniated cerebellum were frequent and possibly result from tethering/strangulation in the AG. No symptoms could be clearly attributed to BHAG, though in three cases of PTCS, TS BHAG could have contributed to sustaining the raised CSF pressure. Various factors are probably involved in the development of BHAG including normal pia-arachnoid bridges between the brain surface and the AG, hydrodynamic constrains on the brain and AG, and, in some cases, increased intracranial pressure.
INTRODUCTION: Brain herniations (BH) into arachnoid granulations (AG) in dural venous sinuses and calvarium have rarely been reported in the literature. METHODS: MRIs of 38 patients with BH into AG (BHAG) were retrospectively analyzed. Locations of BHAG, gyrus/lobe of the herniated brain, parenchymal abnormalities of the BH, and clinical and radiological conditions with raised intracranial pressure were recorded. RESULTS: Sixty-eight BHAG were found, by order of frequency, in the occipital squama (OS), transverse sinus (TS), lateral lacuna of the superior sagittal sinus (LLSSS), and straight sinus (SS), with cerebellar tissue being the most frequently involved in BHAG (94.5 % of OS, 55 % of TS, 100 % SS BHAG). Multiple BHAG were found in 58 % of the patients (up to five per patient). Parenchymal signal and structural changes (SSCG) were observed in 46 % of BHAG (100 % were cerebellar). Three patients had pseudotumor cerebri (PTCS); one patient had only MRI signs of PTCS. Twenty-one percent of patients had intracranial conditions susceptible of increasing cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pressure other than PTCS. CONCLUSIONS:BHAG occurred in the OS, TS, LLSSS, and the SS. SSCG of the herniated cerebellum were frequent and possibly result from tethering/strangulation in the AG. No symptoms could be clearly attributed to BHAG, though in three cases of PTCS, TS BHAG could have contributed to sustaining the raised CSF pressure. Various factors are probably involved in the development of BHAG including normal pia-arachnoid bridges between the brain surface and the AG, hydrodynamic constrains on the brain and AG, and, in some cases, increased intracranial pressure.
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