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Arch Dis Child 1992;67:717-719 doi:10.1136/adc.67.6.717
  • Research Article

Frontoethmoidal meningoencephalocele: a common and severe congenital abnormality in South East Asia.

  1. C G Richards
  1. Department of Paediatrics, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford.

      Abstract

      The clinical features of 23 cases of fronto-ethmoidal meningoencephalocele are described in two South East Asian populations. The clinical, embryological, and epidemiological evidence may support an early teratogenic insult in the aetiology of this congenital defect.

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