Encephalocele is a birth defect which occurs when the neural tube fails to close completely. The neural tube is a structure during the embryonic life which folds and closes to develop into the brain ...

Encephaloceles is a birth defect associated with neural tube. The rare birth-defect affects the brain. The brain and the spinal cord are formed by narrow channel of the neural tube that folds and ...

Encephaloceles are rare birth defects associated with skull defects caused by partial lacking of bone fusion leaving a gap through which a portion of the brain sticks out (protrudes). In some cases, ...

Intellectual disability is a developmental delay that is significantly below average compared to peers, in terms of intelligence and adaptive skills. Neural Tube Defects - Types, Causes, Diagnosis & ...

Clinicians should actively search for anteroinferior encephaloceles in patients with treatment-refractory epilepsy, say researchers. Reporting in Neurology, Ritva Vanninen (Kuopio University Hospital, ...

You have full access to this article via your institution. Occipital encephaloceles may occur as isolated anomalies or in association with genetic syndromes or well-defined congenital malformation ...

A 41 weeks' gestation infant girl was born vaginally with Pitocin induction. The finding of fetal hydrocephalus on a screening sonogram had complicated the pregnancy. The infant was limp at delivery, ...

Parents of three-and-a-half-year-old Sangita Rani Nath, having a rare congenital condition called encephalocele — a kind of brain herniation — landed in Guwahati in July through a route not usually ...