Hydranencephaly: cerebral spinal fluid instead of cerebral mantles
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Hydranencephaly: cerebral spinal fluid instead of cerebral mantles
The authors report a wide and updated revision of hydranencephaly, including a literature review, and present the case of a patient affected by this condition, still alive at 36 months.Hydranencephaly is an isolated and with a severe prognosis abnormality, affecting the cerebral mantle. In this condition, the cerebral hemispheres are completely or almost completely absent and are replaced by a ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Italian Journal of Pediatrics
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1824-7288
DOI: 10.1186/s13052-014-0079-1