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Post-traumatic intradiploic pseudomeningocele

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We report a four year old boy who was detected to have an occipital intradiploic pseudomeningocele three years following a traumatic skull fracture, and which was managed by ventriculo-peritoneal shunt placement. Traumatic intradiploic pseudomeningoceles behave differently from traditional growing skull fractures and may require individualized management decisions.

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery and Gamma Knife, Neurosciences Centre, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, 110 029, India

    Deepak Agrawal & Shashwat Mishra

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Agrawal, D., Mishra, S. Post-traumatic intradiploic pseudomeningocele. Indian Pediatr 47, 271–273 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13312-010-0036-z

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