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Large occipital encephalocele in a newborn (MRI)

The bony defect and skull remodeling are seen, along with cystic changes and dysplastic tissue in the brain and the sac. (Contributed by Dr. Sherman Stein.)

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  • Chiari malformation
  • Cleft lip
  • Cleft palate
  • Dandy-Walker malformation
  • Hydrocephalus
  • Knobloch syndrome
  • Meckel-Gruber syndrome
  • Microcephaly
  • Other neural tube defects
  • Polycystic kidneys
  • Polydactyly