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Section Editors: Matylda Machnowska1 and Anvita Pauranik2
1University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2BC Children's Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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April 21, 2008
Atretic Parietal Meningocele
- Most occur in parietal region or within a few centimeters of the lambda.
- Contain meninges and neural rests
- They have a benign clinical course; patients are intellectually normal
- Associated with persistent falcine sinus, absent or hypoplastic straight sinus, focal splitting of the superior sagittal sinus, overlying bone defect, 'peaking' of the tentorium, fibrous stalk coursing into subcutaneous bleb/cyst, atrophic skin overlying lesion
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