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- Title
Posttraumatic giant fronto-orbito encephalocele causing cosmetic disfiguring forehead swelling with proptosis: Management.
- Authors
Satyarthee, Guru Dutta; Kumar, Amandeep
- Abstract
Fracture of the anterior skull base can occur following head injury. Growing skull fracture is usually observed in children under age of 3-years. It commonly involves frontal and parietal regions. However, orbit involvement is extremely uncommon. Authors report a case of giant orbital encephalocele with a forehead disfiguring swelling in a 4-years boy, who sustained head injury about 3½ years back. However, such delayed presentation of traumatic encephalocele is extremely uncommon and represents the first case in the Western literature, who had a successful postoperative outcome.
- Subjects
COMPLICATIONS of brain injuries; CEREBRAL edema; DISFIGURED persons; EXOPHTHALMOS; ORBITAL diseases; NEURAL tube defects; SKULL fractures
- Publication
Journal of Pediatric Neurosciences, 2016, Vol 11, Issue 4, p341
- ISSN
1817-1745
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.4103/1817-1745.199476