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Lateral temporal encephaloceles: case-based review
- Source :
- Child's Nervous System. 32:1025-1031
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2016.
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Abstract
- Lateral temporal encephalocele is an extremely rare clinical condition, with only 18 cases presented in the literature to date. No review articles have examined lateral temporal encephalocele in depth. We therefore reviewed past cases of lateral encephalocele to clarify the clinical characteristics of this extremely rare deformity. We also present a case of lateral encephalocele with arachnoid cyst which has never been reported in past reports. We identified 8 reports describing 18 cases of lateral temporal encephalocele. We therefore reviewed 19 cases of lateral temporal encephalocele, including our own experience, and discussed the clinical characteristics of this pathology. All the cases with lateral temporal encephalocele were detected at birth except for an occult case. The majority occurred at the pterion, and occurrence at the asterion appears much rarer. Due to the preference for the pterion, the ipsilateral orbital wall was also distorted in some cases. Lateral temporal encephalocele seems to have fewer associated malformations: only 3 cases of lateral temporal encephalocele had associated malformations, including our case which was associated with intracranial arachnoid cyst. The only case of lateral temporal encephalocele to have shown hydrocephalus was our own case. Patients with this deformity have relatively good prognoses: only 3 of the 19 cases showed delayed psychomotor development during follow-up. Provision of adequate treatment is likely to achieve a good prognosis in patients with lateral temporal encephalocele, so we should keep in mind this deformity when encountering pediatric patients with mass lesions on the temporal cranium.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Meningocele
Encephalocele
Pterion
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Arachnoid cyst
Pregnancy
Temporal bone
medicine
Deformity
Humans
Cyst
business.industry
Temporal Bone
General Medicine
medicine.disease
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Surgery
Hydrocephalus
medicine.anatomical_structure
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Asterion
Female
Neurology (clinical)
Radiology
medicine.symptom
business
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14330350 and 02567040
- Volume :
- 32
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Child's Nervous System
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....520fd2fea9ac646164aafd37aa4c19fc