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  • Title: [Meningoencephalocele].
    Author: Lundar T, Nornes H.
    Journal: Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen; 1991 Oct 20; 111(25):3065-6. PubMed ID: 1948919.
    Abstract:
    A total of 52 children with meningoencephalocele were operated during a 23 year period. The anomaly was located frontally in nine children, occipitally in 34 children and infratentorially in nine children. Because of progressive hydrocephalus, 18 children underwent shunt procedures shortly after the initial surgical correction. The prognosis was related to the localization and the content of the cell sac, and to additional congenital anomalies. Nine children died and five are severely disabled. For 38 children the result is good, with no major disabilities. In the case of children with meningoencephalocele the possibility of surgical correction should be considered shortly after birth.
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