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Colpocephaly Diagnosed in a Neurologically Normal Adult in the Emergency Department
Colpocephaly is a form of congenital ventriculomegaly characterized by enlarged occipital horns of the lateral ventricles with associated neurologic abnormalities. The diagnosis of colpocephaly is typically made in infancy. Its diagnosis in adulthood without associated clinical symptoms is exception...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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University of California Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine publishing Western Journal of Emergency Medicine
2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6861018/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31763604 http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2019.9.44646 |
Sumario: | Colpocephaly is a form of congenital ventriculomegaly characterized by enlarged occipital horns of the lateral ventricles with associated neurologic abnormalities. The diagnosis of colpocephaly is typically made in infancy. Its diagnosis in adulthood without associated clinical symptoms is exceptionally rare. We report a case of colpocephaly diagnosed incidentally in an adult without neurologic abnormalities in the emergency department. To our knowledge, this is only the ninth reported case in an asymptomatic adult and the first to be described in the emergency medicine literature. |
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