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In this report, we present a case of non-traumatic intradiploic arachnoid cyst in a 65 year-old woman with a slow growing swelling in the right frontotemporal region without a history of head trauma, which was diagnosed intra-operatively. Extradural intracranial location of non-traumatic arachnoid cyst is a rare clinical entity with a few reported cases in the literature. Characteristic features of non-traumatic intradiploic arachnoid cysts are also described in this mini-review article.
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Iplikcioglu, A., Dinc, C., Bikmaz, K. et al. Non-traumatic intradiploic arachnoid cyst. Acta Neurochir (Wien) 148, 659–662 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00701-006-0746-0
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