Goyal Nishant, Singh Pankaj Kumar, Kakkar Aanchal, Sharma Meher Chand, Mahapatra Ashok Kumar
Department of Neurosurgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi 110029, India.
Pediatr Neurosurg. 2012;48(2):67-72. doi: 10.1159/000339090. Epub 2012 Sep 13.
Both occipital encephalocele and teratomas are midline congenital malformations. Encephalocele is a form of neural tube defect in which there is a congenital defect of the cranium through which occurs a protrusion of brain matter or meninges, while teratoma is a tumor derived from all three germ layers. The association between occipital encephalocele and teratoma has not been reported to date. In the present study, the authors present a series of four such cases.
枕部脑膨出和畸胎瘤均为中线先天性畸形。脑膨出是神经管缺陷的一种形式，即颅骨存在先天性缺损，脑组织或脑膜由此突出，而畸胎瘤是一种源自所有三个胚层的肿瘤。迄今为止，尚未有枕部脑膨出与畸胎瘤关联的报道。在本研究中，作者报告了一系列4例此类病例。
