Type of encephalocele | Differential diagnosis |
Occipital encephalocele | Midline dermoid cysts |
Hemangiomas | |
Vascular malformations of the scalp | |
Cystic hygroma | |
Cranial vault | Congenital parietal foramina |
Scalp defects (aplasia cutis congenita) | |
Dermoid cysts | |
Hemangiomas | |
Frontoethmoidal and basal | Dermoid cysts |
Hemangiomas | |
Sinus pericranii | |
Basal | Inflammatory nasal polyps |
Atretic cephaloceles | |
Mucocele of the paranasal sinuses | |
Neoplasms of the nasal cavity and pharynx | |
Spheno-orbital or frontosphenoidal | Orbital teratoma |
Unilateral agenesis of the sphenoid and orbital plate (eg, in neurofibromatosis I) | |
Congenital cystic eye |
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