Occipital Intradiploic CSF Pseudocyst: An Unusual Complication of a Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Malfunction

Abstract

SUMMARY: We report a rare and unique complication of ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt malfunction. A progressively expansile, CSF-containing occipital intradiploic cyst developed in a 15-year-old boy at the site of cystoperitoneal shunt draining a Dandy-Walker cyst; the shunt was placed when the boy was 4 years old. A proposed pathogenesis of the lesion is discussed.