The child, who was born with the brain malformation known as encephalocele, had a large mass protruding from between her eyes.
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Their youngest child was born with encephalocele and a facial cleft, which required surgery to correct at Boston Children's Hospital.
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The condition, known as an encephalocele, occurs in about one in 5, 000 births; few cases are as severe as Abigail's.
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Like most people, the Ruguleiskis had never heard of encephalocele, and they couldn't find much information at the library or on the Internet.
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Sometimes, in the case of iniencephaly apertus, an encephalocele ( sac-like protrusions of the brain through an opening in the cranium ) forms.
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The extent to which it can be corrected depends on the location and size of the encephaloceles; however, large protrusions can be removed without causing major disability.
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Occipital encephalocele is present in 60 % to 80 % of all cases, and post-axial polydactyly is present in 55 % to 75 % of the total number of identified cases.
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Neural tube defects are birth defects that range from spina bifida, a generally survivable but crippling disease, to the generally fatal anencephaly and encephalocele, in which the skull and brain do not develop properly.
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In about 85 percent of encephalocele cases in the Western Hemisphere, the bulge is at the back of the head; among patients who live in the Eastern Hemisphere, most protrude from the front of the head.
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Three of the most serious birth defects _ spina bifida, anencephaly and encephalocele _ are caused when the neural tube, which forms the brain and spine, fails to close in the first 28 days of pregnancy.
