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Case Report of Worth Syndrome and Chiari I Malformation: Unusual Association and Surgical Treatment.
World Neurosurgery 2018 July
BACKGROUND: Worth syndrome or autosomal dominant endosteal hyperostosis (ADEH) is an extremely rare genetic disease involving increased bone density. To the author's knowledge, this is the second case report of a family with neurologic involvement associated with this condition along with its surgical treatment. The most effective treatment for clinically significant neurologic symptoms in this scenario is currently unknown, and there is sparse experience on surgical treatment for this condition reported in the literature. Therefore we aim to make a contribution to the identification of a standard and consistently successful surgical management.
CASE DESCRIPTION: Two patients, mother (Patient 1) and daughter (Patient 2), were diagnosed with Worth syndrome. Both presented with the typical facial characteristics described for ADEH. Interestingly, Patient 1 presented the novel mutation in the LRP5 gene that is associated with different conditions involving increased bone density. Although neurologic symptoms are infrequent in ADEH, both referred chronic headache, nausea, and vomiting. Neuroimaging showed an increased cranial bone density and Chiari I malformation. The patients underwent a midline suboccipital craniectomy with excision of the posterior arch of C1 and duroplasty. However, due to a symptomatic recurrence 5 years after surgery, Patient 1 was reoperated on. We extended the craniectomy and also carried out a C2 laminectomy.
CONCLUSION: After surgical interventions, patients' neurologic symptoms were successfully resolved. This report shows that posterior fossa decompression including duroplasty may be a valid treatment option in case of neurologic involvement.
CASE DESCRIPTION: Two patients, mother (Patient 1) and daughter (Patient 2), were diagnosed with Worth syndrome. Both presented with the typical facial characteristics described for ADEH. Interestingly, Patient 1 presented the novel mutation in the LRP5 gene that is associated with different conditions involving increased bone density. Although neurologic symptoms are infrequent in ADEH, both referred chronic headache, nausea, and vomiting. Neuroimaging showed an increased cranial bone density and Chiari I malformation. The patients underwent a midline suboccipital craniectomy with excision of the posterior arch of C1 and duroplasty. However, due to a symptomatic recurrence 5 years after surgery, Patient 1 was reoperated on. We extended the craniectomy and also carried out a C2 laminectomy.
CONCLUSION: After surgical interventions, patients' neurologic symptoms were successfully resolved. This report shows that posterior fossa decompression including duroplasty may be a valid treatment option in case of neurologic involvement.
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