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Revista de la Facultad de Medicina
Print version ISSN 0120-0011
Abstract
MOSCOTE-SALAZAR, Luis Rafael; ALVIS-MIRANDA, Hernando Raphael; ALCALA-CERRA, Gabriel and ESCORCIA, Héctor Farid. Reconstruction of encephalocele frontoethmoidal using graft acetabular: Case Report. rev.fac.med. [online]. 2014, vol.62, n.2, pp.293-297. ISSN 0120-0011. https://doi.org/10.15446/revfacmed.v62n2.45422.
Frontoethmoidal encephalocele is a congenital neural tube malformation characterized by a herniation of the brain and the meninges through an anterior cranial defect, which generates facial deformity. This document presents a report of a 10-year-old boy with a midline facial defect corresponding to an encephalocele frontoethmoidal. Surgical correction was performed with the acetabulum graft placement, obtaining an aesthetic improvement and anatomically favorable. This seems to be the first case in the literature in which the acetabulumgraft is used to reconstruct a frontoethmoidal encephalocele.
Keywords : Encephalocele; Infant; Newborn; Skull; Neural Tube Defects.