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Updated: Mar 5 2019

Dandy-Walker Malformation

  • Introduction
    • An 1-year-old boy is brought to the emergency department by his parents due to increased irritability and an "enlarging head." The parents deny any trauma but has noticed their infant appears weaker than his sister when she was his age. They did not receive adequate prenatal care due to the distance and cost to arrive to their closest obstetrician. On physical exam, the infant is inconsolable and has an increased head circumference for his age. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the head shows hypoplasia of the cerebellar vermis with cystic dilatation of the fourth ventricle leading to a non-communicating hydrocephalus.
  • Introduction
    • Epidemiology
      • incidence
        • 1 in 30,000 births
    • Associated conditions
      • noncommunicating hydrocephalus
      • spina bifida
  • Presentation
    • Symptoms
      • intellectual or learning disability
      • seizures
      • issues with
        • movement
        • coordination
        • mood
    • Physical exam
      • macrocephaly
        • if hydrocephalus ensues
      • may have spastic paraplegia
  • Imaging
    • Prenatal ultrasound
      • findings
        • dilatation of the fourth ventricle
        • presistent Blake's pouch cyst
        • enlargement of the posterior fossa
    • MRI
      • indication
        • imaging of choice for assessing for Dandy-Walker malformation
      • findings
        • hypoplasia of the cerebellar vermis
        • cystic dilatation of the fourth ventricle
        • posterior fossa enlargement
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Neurology | Dandy Walker Malformation
  • Neurology
  • - Dandy-Walker Malformation
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