THE TREATMENT OF MENINGOCELE, ENCEPHALOCELE AND HYDRENCEPHALOCELE, BY MEANS OF A COLLODION CAP
THE TREATMENT OF MENINGOCELE, ENCEPHALOCELE AND HYDRENCEPHALOCELE, BY MEANS OF A COLLODION CAP. IT has been my misfortune to meet with several cases of meningocele, encephalocele, and hydrencephalocele. Most of them died in the course of few weeks or months; convulsions preceding death. Of the three forms of tumor, hydrencephalocele may be considered the most unfavorable. These tumors consist of brain substance, the meninges, and fluid. Encephalocele consists of cerebral substance only, while a meningocele contains the membranes of the brain. These protrusions have been mistaken for polypi, abscesses, vascular growths, and cephalhaematoma.