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Prenatal Diagnosis of Atretic Occipital Cephalocele: A Case Report

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Atretic cephaloceles refer to the congenital herniation of meningeal and vestigial tissues such as arachnoid, glial or neural rests. These small, skin covered subscalp lesions usually appear within a few centimetres of the lambda and nearly half of them have a parietal situation, the remaining half have occipital, parieto-occipital, frontal, asterion, and sincipital locations. Atretic cephaloceles can be isolated or associated with congenital syndromes, agenesis of corpus callosum, grey matter heterotopias, ventriculomegaly, mental retardation, developmental delay, epilepsy, spasticity, speech difficulty, strabismus, optic nerve atrophy, microphthalmia, enophthalmos, cleft palate, hypertelorism, congenital cardiac and vascular defects, renal agenesis, hearing problems, congenital lobar emphysema, and muscular anomalies. This case report describes a newborn which has been diagnosed with atretic occipital cephalocele prenatally and also bilateral cochlear hypoplasia postnatally.

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  1. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faulty of Medicine Istanbul, Istanbul University, 34093, Istanbul, Turkey

    Çiğdem Kunt İşgüder

  2. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, Pamukkale University, Denizli, Turkey

    Özlem Koşar Can

  3. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, Afyonkarahisar University of Health Sciences, Afyonkarahisar, Turkey

    Mine Kanat Pektaş

  4. Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Gaziosmanpaşa University, Tokat, Turkey

    Erkan Gökçe

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Kunt İşgüder, Ç., Koşar Can, Ö., Kanat Pektaş, M. et al. Prenatal Diagnosis of Atretic Occipital Cephalocele: A Case Report. J. Fetal Med. 6, 133–137 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40556-019-00211-z

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