PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Gwyneth Hughes
AU  - Kene Ugokwe
AU  - Edward C. Benzel
TI  - A review of spinal arachnoid cysts
DP  - 2008 Apr 01
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - 311--315
VI  - 75
IP  - 4
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/75/4/311.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/75/4/311.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med2008 Apr 01; 75
AB  - The symptoms of spinal arachnoid cysts are variable and nonspecific, so they are commonly misdiagnosed. Often the cysts are discovered incidentally on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). If they cause no symptoms, no treatment is warranted regardless of the size of the cyst. Cysts that cause symptoms from mechanical compression of the spinal cord are best evaluated with MRI and surgically excised if possible.