Open AccessDouble encephalocele: An unusual presentation
Author(s) -
Eo Yhoshu,
Vedarth Dash,
Monika Bawa
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of pediatric neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.247
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1998-3948
pISSN - 1817-1745
DOI - 10.4103/jpn.jpn_22_18
Subject(s) - medicine , encephalocele , occiput , presentation (obstetrics) , lumbosacral joint , vertex (graph theory) , occipital bone , anatomy , surgery , skull , graph , mathematics , discrete mathematics
The occurrence of multiple neural tube defects in a single patient is rare; the cases reported in the past are mostly of thoracic and lumbosacral region. Double occipital encephaloceles are rare; only four cases have been reported till date. Here we report a case of double encephalocele-one in the vertex and the other in the occiput, and a literature study on similar reports.