Symptoms of Inferior Cerebellar Hernia

The symptoms of cerebellar hernia include symptoms caused by acute cerebellar hernia or symptoms caused by chronic cerebellar hernia. 1. Acute cerebellar hernia is more common in severe intracranial pressure increase, such as severe hydrocephalus, advanced intracranial tumor caused by the overall brain tissue to the cervical spinal canal, or also known as occipital foramen magnum hernia. This kind of disease belongs to the acute and critical disease of brain surgery, the patient has the risk of respiratory and cardiac arrest, and needs immediate etiological treatment, such as hydrocephalus, immediate ventricular drainage, tumor immediate craniotomy tumor resection. 2. Chronic inferior cerebellar hernia is mainly seen in chiari malformation. Generally speaking, this kind of patient needs craniotomy posterior cranial fossa occipital resection and posterior cranial fossa decompression surgery.