A porencephalic cyst is a cavity within the cerebral hemisphere, filled with cerebrospinal fluid that communicates directly with the ventricular system. 1, 4 These are usually associated with ...

Porencephalic cysts are very rare, her doctors said, and are typically diagnosed in infants before their first birthday, according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. ...

Indeed, babies with porencephalic cysts are usually diagnosed by their first birthday, according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke; some do not live past age 20.

A woman's sudden delusions — including becoming wrongly convinced that her husband of 20 years was being unfaithful — turned out to have a surprising cause: a large cyst in her brain ...

The 43-year-old woman in Turkey had become suddenly suspicious of her husband's infidelity, and had started looking through his phone and personal belongings, the doctors who treated her wrote in ...

ENCEPHALOGRAPHY with radioiodinated serum albumin (RISA) provides a new and useful tool for the clinical evaluation of cerebrospinal-fluid dynamics. Di Chiro1 demonstrated that the flow of intrathe ...

Early scans also showed he would likely be missing a quarter of his brain at birth due to a porencephalic cyst in his head, which was destroying his brain. Noah also had a rare condition called ...