Post-traumatic intradiploic pseudomeningocele in children

Abstract

Eight children with post-traumatic pseudomeningocele are reported. In this paper the mean age at the time of injury was one year and ten months. All of them gave a history of a fall from a height. In six patients the meningocele was located in the parietooccipital region. The frontal bone was involved in one and the roof of the orbit in another. All these patients had localized progressive swelling of the skull associated with a bony defect. Four patients had a history of convulsion and three had hemiparesis. The meningocele was excised, the dural defect repaired and a cranioplasty was performed in all. Good recovery was observed in all of them.