We report a case of symptomatic cyst formation as a delayed complication of gamma knife radiosurgery for treatment of intracranial arteriovenous malformation. The cyst was discovered six years after GKS. Initially it was asymptomatic, presenting with symptoms of mass effect after another six months. It was decompressed by a cystoperitoneal shunt following which the symptoms were relieved.
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