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subependymal pseudocyst

subependymal cyst, subependymal cysts, periventricular pseudocysts

Types

- non-hemorrhagic subependymal pseudocysts

  • subependymal germinolytic cysts
    • caudothalamic germinolytic cysts (caudothalamic germinolysis)
  • pseudocysts in the anterior choroid plexus of the lateral ventricle
  • pseudocysts lateral of the frontal horns

- post-hemorrhagic subependymal pseudocysts

Etiology

- hypoxemia/ischemia

- subependymal hemorrhage
- CNS infections

- developmental defect of the mantle layer
- chromosomal diseases,
- CNS trauma
- oxydative phosphorylation diseases (mitochondriopathies)
- Zellweger disease (Zellweger syndrome) (7567228, 15170429)

See also

- intracranial pseudocysts