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What does encephalocele mean?

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Noun
  1. (medicine) A form of hernia of the brain and its membranes through an opening in the skull.
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We report one such case of sincipital encephalocele with agenesis of corpus callosum and intracranial lipoma.
Nasal encephalocele can be divided into sincipital and basal variety.
The protrusion is termed a meningocele if it contains meninges and cerebrospinal fluid and a meningoencephalocele or encephalocele when it also contains brain tissue.
Encephalocele is described as a sac-like protrusion of the brain and the membranes that cover it through an opening in the skull.
Encephalocele results from a hole in the skull through which brain tissue protrudes.
Here we report three cases of sincipital encephalocele, which were surgically managed.

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