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| Year : 2016 | Volume
: 11
| Issue : 4 | Page : 341-343 |
Posttraumatic giant fronto-orbito encephalocele causing cosmetic disfiguring forehead swelling with proptosis: Management
Guru Dutta Satyarthee, Amandeep Kumar
Department of Neurosurgery, Neurosciences Centre, All Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
Correspondence Address:
Guru Dutta Satyarthee
Department of Neurosurgery, #714, Neurosciences Centre, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
India
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DOI: 10.4103/1817-1745.199476
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.
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