leptomeningeal cyst
"growing skull fracture"
- trauma ==>
- skull fx with tear of dura
- herniation of fluid-filled arachnoid tissue
- cyst walled off by subarchnoid adhesions
- XR: oval area of bony erosion with scalloped margins
- may result in acquired encephalocele
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