[Clinical picture of colloid cysts of the III ventricle].

Clinical analysis of 74 cases of colloid cysts of the III-d ventricle was performed. Dynamics of clinical symptom complex was studied both in preoperative and early postoperative period as well as in remote periods after surgery. Most of the patients were treated in N.N. Burdenko Institute of Neurosurgery during 1980-1995. Peculiarities of the disease development before clinical manifestation, variations of complicated postoperative period, prognostically significant symptoms, possible mechanisms of clinical syndromes development were considered.