Giant Occipital Encephalocele in an Infant: A Surgical Challenge

Giant occipital encephalocele is an uncommon condition. The sheer size of the lesion poses a challenge to the surgeon and the anesthetist. Here, we present a 4-month-old girl child presenting with a progressively increasing swelling in the occipital region since birth. The child after evaluation und...

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Autores principales: Murthy, Pramod Sreekanta, Kalinayakanahalli Ramkrishnappa, Shravan Kumar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6935981/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31908663
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jpn.JPN_115_18
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description Giant occipital encephalocele is an uncommon condition. The sheer size of the lesion poses a challenge to the surgeon and the anesthetist. Here, we present a 4-month-old girl child presenting with a progressively increasing swelling in the occipital region since birth. The child after evaluation underwent repair of the encephalocele. The purpose of this report was to highlight the difficulties faced during surgery while operating on such a huge occipital encephalocele.
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spelling pubmed-69359812020-01-06 Giant Occipital Encephalocele in an Infant: A Surgical Challenge Murthy, Pramod Sreekanta Kalinayakanahalli Ramkrishnappa, Shravan Kumar J Pediatr Neurosci Case Report Giant occipital encephalocele is an uncommon condition. The sheer size of the lesion poses a challenge to the surgeon and the anesthetist. Here, we present a 4-month-old girl child presenting with a progressively increasing swelling in the occipital region since birth. The child after evaluation underwent repair of the encephalocele. The purpose of this report was to highlight the difficulties faced during surgery while operating on such a huge occipital encephalocele. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019 2019-12-03 /pmc/articles/PMC6935981/ /pubmed/31908663 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jpn.JPN_115_18 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Journal of Pediatric Neurosciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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