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cerebral malformations

brain malformations

Etiology

- monogenic diseases
- chromosomal diseases
- inborn errors of metabolism
- exogenous causes

Types

- neurulation failures

- failure of neural tube growth (defects in the differentiation of medial structures)

  • prosencephalon growth failure (prosencephalies)

- anomalies of neuronal migration (cytoarchitectonic anomalies)

- microencepahly and micrencephaly

- megalencephaly

- defects of the ventricular system (congenital hydrocephalus)

- brainstem and cerebellum growth failure

- cerebral cysts

- cerebral vascular malformations

  • cerebral arterioveinous malformations

See also:

- spinal cord malformations

P.S.


- The Atlas of Syndromic CNS Malformations , by Alex R. Paciorkowski, M.D.