Clinical diagnosis and surgical treatment of an occipital meningocele

Authors

  • Jorge Luis Rodríguez Loureiro Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía Profesor Rafael Estrada González. La Habana
  • Nivys González Benítez Dirección Municipal de Salud. Plaza de la Revolución. La Habana
  • Midiala Monagas Docasal Facultad de Ciencias Médicas Comandante Manuel Fajardo. La Habana
  • Letier Pérez Ortiz Hospital Provincial Docente Clínico-Quirúrgico José R. López Tabrane. Matanzas
  • Rafael Guerra Sánchez Hospital Provincial Docente Clínico-Quirúrgico José R. López Tabrane. Matanzas

Keywords:

encephalomeningocele, meningocele, defects of the neural tube closure, congenital anomalies, neurosurgery

Abstract

The occipital meningocele is a congenital malformation produced by a defect in the neural tube closure. This disease's natural course is toward death caused by the infection of the central nervous system or toward some level of advanced motor or sensitive disability. There have been described several forms of this malformation. Its diagnosis is based in the physical examination and in neurophysiologic and imaging studies, indispensable to know the content of the hernia sac and to determine the kind of surgery to carry out. We presented the case of a male patient that had to be surgically treated only for the results of the physical examination and simple radiographic study, due to the economical family impossibility of paying the rest of the complementary examination. We opened the hernia sac, drained the cerebrospinal fluid and repaired the skin and muscular planes. The patient had a favorable evolution.

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Rodríguez Loureiro JL, González Benítez N, Monagas Docasal M, Pérez Ortiz L, Guerra Sánchez R. Clinical diagnosis and surgical treatment of an occipital meningocele. Rev Méd Electrón [Internet]. 2014 Mar. 27 [cited 2025 Jan. 10];33(4):534-9. Available from: https://revmedicaelectronica.sld.cu/index.php/rme/article/view/868

Issue

Vol. 33 No. 4 (2011)

Section

Presentation of cases

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