Hydrocephalus and occipital encephaloceles: presentation of a series and review of the literature.
Tatiana Protzenko CervanteSaint Clair Dos Santos Gomes JuniorAntônio BellasJosé Francisco M SalomãoPublished in: Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery (2021)
Hydrocephalus is common in patients with posterior encephaloceles, being more frequent in the supratorcular type, especially when associated to Dandy-Walker, Chiari III malformation, and pre-existing ventriculomegaly. The severity of giant encephaloceles, when associated to torcular types and microcephaly, is a limiting factor for development of hydrocephalus, due both to the rapid evolution of natural history and the structural changes in microcephaly.