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On Encephalocele; Being the History of a Case, with a Tabular Analysis of Seventy-Five Cases

1856; SAGE Publishing; Volume: MCT-39; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1177/095952875603900120

0959-5287

John Z. Laurence,

Head and Neck Surgical Oncology

CONGENITAL hernia of the brain is a rare malformation; for the subjects of it to live any length of time is a matter of still greater rarity.In the following instance of the disease life was considerably prolonged, and it is chiefly on account of this peculiarity that I have ventured to submit the case to the Society.Mrs. Gwas delivered, on the 15th of November, 1855, of a female child, which bore at its birth a tumour at the back of the head.The labour was natural.The child was two months and a half old when I first saw it.Concealing, and apparently originating from, the occiput and nucha, was a somewhat conical tumour, nearly as large as the child's head, measuring five inches and a Whole of cere-I Defective.State of Cerebellum.Gatngrened.Too large.