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A Giant Occipital Encephalocele
Giant occipital encephaloceles are rare lesions. Because of their enormous size they pose a surgical challenge. Herein we report a four months old female baby who presented with progressively increasing swelling over the occipital region. This swelling was present since birth. Surgery was planned to reduce the size of the swelling as well as its contents. The redundant sac was excised and reduc...
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Cardiofaciocutaneous (CFC) syndrome is a rare multiple congenital anomalies/mental retardation (MCA/MR) syndrome characterized by growth failure, distinctive facial appearance, ectodermal abnormalities, and congenital heart defects1. Around 100 cases have been reported in literature to date. We describe here a child with features of cardiofaciocutaneous syndrome. Parental consanguinity and occi...
متن کاملSupra- and infra-torcular double occipital encephalocele.
An encephalocele is a protrusion of the brain and/or meninges through a defect in the skull that is closed or covered with skin. Occipital encephaloceles are the most frequent type in North America and Western Europe, where about 85% of encephaloceles take this form. To the best of our knowledge, there are only three other reported cases of double occipital encephaloceles in the literature. The...
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Giant encephalocele is an uncommon congenital anomaly with very few published reports available in the English literature. Tetralogy of Fallot associated with situs inversus is also infrequently reported. To our knowledge there are no published reports of an association between giant encephalocele and Tetralogy of Fallot. The additional finding of situs inversus results in a rare pathologic tri...
متن کاملProgressive skin necrosis of a huge occipital encephalocele
OBJECTS Progressive skin necrosis of giant occipital encephalocoele is an extremely rare complication found in neonates. Infection and ulceration of the necrosed skin may lead to meningitis or sepsis. We present here a neonate with giant occipital encephalocoele showing progressive necrosis during the first day of his life. METHODS A newborn baby was found to have a huge mass in the occipital...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Romanian Neurosurgery
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2344-4959,1220-8841
DOI: 10.1515/romneu-2016-0020