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Recurrent meningitis and transethmoidal intranasal meningoencephalocele
J M Izquierdo1, L M Gil-Carcedo
1University of Oviedo, Spain.
Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology
|April 1, 1988
Abstract:
A three-year-old girl with hypertelorism suffered seven episodes of meningitis. X-ray, CT scan and gamma-cisternography revealed a meningoencephalocele at the base of the skull. At operation, a 'hole' of about 25mm was clearly visible in the midline, just behind the lamina cribrosa; through this a piece of brain tissue protruded towards the nasal cavities. The herniated brain-tissue was removed and the gap was closed. Meningitis did not recur.