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National news updates - 18 February 2008  -  Feb 18, 2008
Cameroon Radio Television,A team of neuro-surgeons in Douala, littoral Province has successfully operated upon a nine day old baby with a rare case of encephalocele.

Surgeons give Loi a fresh start in life  -  Dec 18, 2007
The West Australian,Until three weeks ago Loi was forced to live with severe encephalocele, a mysterious condition which has no confirmed cause but means part of his brain

Family coping despite illness, financial troubles  -  Dec 7, 2007
SouthCoastToday.com,Page has encephalocele, a neural tube defect she has suffered with since birth. She also suffers from scoliosis, cerebral palsy and blindness.

surgery gives baby a new look  -  Nov 20, 2007
Newindpress,...removed a giant tumour like swelling from the head of a seven-month-old baby. the swelling called â€œgiant frontal encephalocele,â€? in medical terminology,

is this cameron? while being filmed, allison blurted out that she ...  -  Nov 14, 2007
Entertainment Weekly...was going to take over the episode, especially during the opening black-and-white sequence. the patient suffered from a frontal nasal encephalocele,

Prenatal Diagnosis of Isolated Laryngeal Atresia  -  Aug 22, 2007
Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine (subscription)Laryngeal atresia, encephalocele, and limb deformities (LEL): a possible new syndrome. J Med Genet 2001; 38: 420â€“422.[Free Full Text] Meagher SE, Fisk NM,

The Wonders of Folic Acid  -  10 Aug 2007
News Today Online,Neural defects includes, among others, anencephaly (born without a brain and without a skull), encephalocele (skull defect allowing the protrusion of brain

Folic acid fortification cut birth defect rates  -  Jul 12, 2007
CTV.ca,The rate of spina bifida cases dropped 53 per cent, while rates of anencephaly (in which part of the skull and brain are missing) and encephalocele (a gap

Folic Acid Does Reduce Birth Defects: Another Study  -  Jul 12, 2007
ScienceBlogsThe observed reduction in rate was greater for spina bifida (a decrease of 53%) than for anencephaly and encephalocele (decreases of 38% and 31%,

Neural-Tube Defects Decline After Folic Acid Fortification  -  Jul 11, 2007
MedPage Today,For anencephaly and encephalocele the decreases were 38% and 31%, respectively. A previous study, which assessed the effect of folic acid fortification in

Fundraisers aim to help girl get surgery  -  Jun 8, 2007
Noblesville Daily Times,An encephalocele is a protrusion of brain tissue through a congenital fissure in the skull, Barker explained. â€œIt basically means she was missing a large

Congenital Glioependymal Cyst Presenting with Severe Proptosis  -  Jun 14, 2007
AJNR (subscription),...the differential diagnoses included a glioependymal cyst, ependymal cyst, arachnoid cyst, enterogenous cyst, dermoid cyst, encephalocele, and congenital

Folic acid intake can cut serious birth defect risk by 70 per cent  -  May 13, 2007
Earthtimes.org...closure of the spinal cord and spinal column along with anencephaly and encephalocele, both of which involve a serious underdevelopment of the brain.

Rare skull defect prompts risky surgery  -  Apr 25, 2007
WFIE-TV,John McQuay has an encephalocele. It's a sac-like protrusion of the brain through a hole in the skull. It's likely caused by the failure of the neural tube

5-year-old faces defect with a smile  -  Apr 10, 2007
Evansville Courier & Press (subscription),A Barbecue fundraiser has been planned to help John McQuay IV, 5, of Evansville who was born with a rare condition known as an Encephalocele,

Southern Ariz. Authors  -  Apr 1, 2007
Arizona Daily Star,Life expectancy is brief â€” in this case, little Aaron, who suffered from a rare brain affliction, encephalocele, lived a year.

Against all odds: Napoleon's Heinrichs wins on mat, inspires on ...  -  Feb 21, 2007
Toledo Blade,Other neural tube defects include anencephaly and encephalocele. Spina bifida malformations fall into three categories: spina bifida occulta, spina bifida

Insects 'were feeding on her flesh'  -  Jan 19, 2007
Gulf News,Hanan was born with "frontal encephalocele," a defect which causes cerebral and skull abnormalities resulting in, among other things, developmental delay,

Healing hands  -  Nov 25, 2006
Globe and Mail,...over again.". Kokou had an encephalocele, a birth defect that occurs when brain tissue protrudes through a fissure in the skull. The ...

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