Meningoencephalocele is an extracranial protrusion of the meninges, cerebrospinal fluid and some portion of the brain, and is usually classified into; anterior, occipital, temporal and basal types according to the location. In most large series of cases of this disease reported in the literature, the frontoethmoidal meningoencephalocele which is called anterior type constitute only a small percentage. In contrast to other type of meningoencephalocele, the incidence of associated congenital abnormalities is relatively low in this disease.
Therefore, the long-term prognosis following surgery is ex; eLent. Recently, we experienced 2 cases of frontoethmoidal meningoencephaloceles which were treated by intraand extracranial approach, and obtained satisfactory results and report these with review of articles.
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