PEDIATRICS Vol. 90 No. 6 December 1992, pp. 914-919
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Outlook for the Child With a Cephalocele

Mark S. Brown MD1 and Margaret Sheridan-Pereira FRCPI, DObst DCH, DStats1

1 From the Department of Perinatology, Children's Hospital, and Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver

Specific information on the outcome for a child with a cephalocele can be difficult to find and interpret. To update outcome information for the child with a cephalocele, the investigators compared outcome of 34 infants from their institution with that of those in previously published series. For the infants from the investigators' institution, overall mortality was 29% and was confined to infants with posterior defects, which was consistent with other published series. Additional major congenital abnormalities were present in nearly half the infants, and these were an important factor in contributing to a poorer prognosis as well as whether the defect could be operatively reduced. Seizures and hydrocephalus were often secondary problems in those infants who did worse. In addressing outlook for the infant with the cephalocele, primary factors to be considered are operability and the presence of additional major abnormalities, both intracranial and extracranial.

Key Words: cephalocele • meningocele • encephalocele

Submitted on April 8, 1992
Accepted on June 17, 1992




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