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Superficial siderosis complicated by hydrocephalus: bleeding from the dura mater in the cerebrospinal fluid cavity after brain tumor surgery

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Abstract

Background

In most patients with superficial siderosis of the central nervous system, the exact source of bleeding remains unknown and a treatment has not yet been established.

Methods

We herein presented a case of superficial siderosis complicated by hydrocephalus 19 years after supratentorial brain tumor resection.

Results

The bleeding source was identified as the dura mater in the intracranial cerebrospinal fluid cavity, and not a recurrent tumor.

Conclusion

Chronic intracranial bleeding from the dura mater was successfully arrested by replacement of the dura mater with the autologous fascia of the thigh, and hydrocephalus was treated with endoscopic surgery.

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, Tokyo Metropolitan Neurological Hospital, 2-6-1, Musashidai, Fuchu, Tokyo, 183-0042, Japan

    Keisuke Takai, Manabu Niimura & Makoto Taniguchi

  2. Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Tokyo Metropolitan Neurological Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

    Takashi Komori

  3. Department of Neurosurgery, The University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

    Masahiro Shin

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Takai, K., Komori, T., Shin, M. et al. Superficial siderosis complicated by hydrocephalus: bleeding from the dura mater in the cerebrospinal fluid cavity after brain tumor surgery. Acta Neurochir 158, 1299–1302 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00701-016-2817-1

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