Encephalocele: What It Is, Causes, Treatment & Types - Cleveland Clinic
2023年11月1日 · Encephalocele is a birth defect where brain tissue grows through an opening in your newborn’s skull. It’s a type of neural tube defect that happens when the top of the neural tube doesn’t close completely. The condition can be life-threatening, but surgery helps treat it.
Encephalocele - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf
2023年9月4日 · Encephalocele is usually a congenital type of neural tube defect, where a sac containing brain/meninges/cerebrospinal fluid forms outside the skull due to a bone defect. On occasions, acquired encephaloceles may result from trauma, tumors, or iatrogenic injury.
Encephalocele - Nationwide Children's Hospital
Encephalocele is a rare congenital condition where the neural tube does not close and causes a sac-like bulge with brain tissue and spinal fluid that pokes through the skull. Encephalocele is often found during a prenatal ultrasound.
Occipital Encephalocele: Cause, Incidence, Neuroimaging and …
Occipital encephalocele (OE) are the most common form of this congenital disorder and are manifested as a swelling of different sizes over the occipital bone in the midline. Proper diagnosis and treatment is highly important in the management of this congenital malformation of brain.
Encephalocele - Wikipedia
Encephalocele is a neural tube defect characterized by sac-like protrusions of the brain and the membranes that cover it through openings in the skull. These defects are caused by failure of the neural tube to close completely during fetal development.
Encephalocele - Symptoms, Causes, Treatment | NORD
2023年9月8日 · Occipital encephaloceles are associated with changes (variants or mutations) the CEP290 (centrosomal protein 290) gene. Most researchers believe that multiple factors are required to develop a neural tube defect that leads to encephalocele.
A Brief Review of Giant Occipital Encephalocele - PMC
Encephalocele is caused by failure of the closure of the cranial part of the developing neural tube during the first few weeks of fetal life. An encephalocele is termed as “giant encephalocele” when the size of encephalocele is larger than the size of the head.
Encephalocele | Birth Defects | CDC - Centers for Disease Control …
2024年5月16日 · Encephalocele is a rare type of neural tube defect (NTD) that affects the brain. The neural tube forms the early brain and spine. When the neural tube does not close completely during early pregnancy, encephalocele can happen.
Posterior Encephalocele - American Journal of Obstetrics
2020年11月7日 · The ultrasonographic appearance of a posterior (occipital) encephalocele is that of a saclike structure adjoining the fetal head (Figures 1 and 2). The head circumference and biparietal diameter may be significantly smaller than expected for the fetal age.
Occipital Encephalocele | Pediatric Neurosurgery - Oxford …
2019年1月1日 · Occipital encephalocele, thought to result from a post-neurulation disorder, is an outpouching of meninges, CSF, and dysplastic brain tissue through a defect in the skull, typically covered by dysplastic skin.