1 The Departments of Pediatrics and Neurosurgery, State University of New York, College of Medicine, Pediatric Service, University Division, Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn, N.Y.
An infant of 5 months who had an extracranial varix of the sigmoid dural sinus is described. A correct preoperative diagnosis of the nature of mass was not made and the infant died during surgical exploration as a result of air embolism. The embryologic, diagnostic and therapeutic implications are discussed.
Submitted on December 17, 1954