Arachnoiditis

Arachnoiditis - serous inflammation arachnoid brain and (or) of the spinal cord. Contrary to the image representations -very rare disease.

Etiology, pathogenesis. All that matters is transferred to the past trauma, meningitis, subarachnoid hemorrhage. From cerebral arachnoiditis practical importance only arachnoiditis posterior fossa, usually imitating this tumor localization. When localizing spinal arachnoiditis usually repeats clinic spinal cord compression. No clinical analyzes of blood or cerebrospinal fluid study did not identify specific changes. It helps identify arachnoiditis only myelography, giving a characteristic pattern different from miepogrammy spinal cord tumor. In the vast majority of patients, for many years the attending about "Arach-noidita", in fact there are neurosis (mainly asthenia, astenodepressivnyh) state, including persistent headaches, and some organic soft signs, revealed at the same time, and become the starting point of misdiagnosis.

Treatment. Arachnoiditis posterior fossa and spinal cord that occur with pseudotumor picture is usually treated surgically.