Occipital pool cysts can be treated conservatively and surgically.
Occipital pool cyst is a congenital disease, if it does not cause hydrocephalus, increased intracranial pressure and other symptoms, you can not need to be treated, patients need to go to the hospital on a regular basis to review the changes in the cyst.
If the occipital pool cyst causes neurological deficits or increased intracranial pressure, timely surgical treatment is needed, and untimely treatment will cause nausea and vomiting, epilepsy occurs, the main surgical methods are simple endoscopic cystostomy and endoscopic cystostomy plus part of the cystic wall resection, etc., to avoid the cysts continue to increase in size and compression of the cerebral nerves.
Patients who find occipital pool cysts should go to the hospital in time, under the guidance of the doctor to determine the appropriate treatment program.