Annual and analytical cyclopaedia of practical medicine . Diagram of meningocele. [Holt, Diseases ofInfancy and Childhood.) pressure. ITydrencephalocele can hardlybe confounded with any of the aboveaffections, owing to its large size, itspendulous, pedunculated, and lobulatedconformation, with semitranslucency,and its strictlv congenital historv. All. Hydrencephaloi lie. i//v//, Diseases ofJnfaney and Childhood.) of these eases are apt to be associatedwith other deformities, and some form cible, that encephalocele is attended by of paralysis is frequently present in casessigns of cerebral comp
Annual and analytical cyclopaedia of practical medicine . Diagram of meningocele. [Holt, Diseases ofInfancy and Childhood.) pressure. ITydrencephalocele can hardlybe confounded with any of the aboveaffections, owing to its large size, itspendulous, pedunculated, and lobulatedconformation, with semitranslucency,and its strictlv congenital historv. All. Hydrencephaloi lie. i//v//, Diseases ofJnfaney and Childhood.) of these eases are apt to be associatedwith other deformities, and some form cible, that encephalocele is attended by of paralysis is frequently present in casessigns of cerebral compression when press- of hydrencephalocele. 12G EXCEPIIALOCELE. TREATMENT. Etiology and Pathology.—The excit-ing causes of these three fornis of con-genita] nialformations are practically un-known. It is proljable that injury to themother may account for some of thecases. The influence of certain maternalimpressions may oi)erate here, by in-ducing an arrest of development. The most widely accepted view of thepathology of these states is that they areall due to a primary intra-utcrine hydro-cephalus, and that the resultant in-creased intracranial pressure during theclosure of the cranial cavity causes a por-tion of the intracranial contents to beforced outside, an ajjcrture being main-tained. Other possible causes are am-niotic adhesions to the
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