Endoscopic Repair of Bilateral Frontal Meningoencephalocele: A Case Report

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Rawan AlMalki Abdullah Saud Arafat Mohammed Asiri Amirah Almutairi Mohammad Jihad Al Mahdi

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Abdullah Saud Arafat
Otolaryngology H&N Surgery Department, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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Encephalocele is less common than other neural tube defects. This report details a bilateral frontal meningoencephalocele that presented at a later than usual age with tonic-clonic seizure and cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) rhinorrhea of a 65-year-old female, a known case of hypertension, and controlled epilepsy.

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Case Report

Publication history

Received: Tue 05, Jul 2022
Accepted: Mon 01, Aug 2022
Published: Thu 11, Aug 2022

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© 2023 Abdullah Saud Arafat. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.SCR.2022.08.05