Post-traumatic intradiploic pseudomeningocele in children.
Eight children with post-traumatic pseudomeningocele are reported. In this paper the mean age at the time of injury was one year and ten months. All of them gave a history of a fall from a height. In six patients the meningocele was located in the parieto-occipital region. The frontal bone was involved in one and the roof of the orbit in another. All these patients had localized progressive swelling of the skull associated with a bony defect. Four patients had a history of convulsion and three had hemiparesis. The meningocele was excised, the dural defect repaired and a cranioplasty was performed in all. Good recovery was observed in all of them.
Mahapatra
A K
AK
Department of Neurosurgery, All India Institute of Medial Sciences, New Delhi.
Tandon
P N
PN
D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000150:complications*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D008588:Meningocele / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D011859:Radiography