Author(s)

Broalet Maman You Espérance^1*, Konan Landry², Moulot Martial Olivier³, Esso Didier², Bankole Sanni³

¹Département de Neurochirurgie, Saint Joseph Moscati Catholic Hospital, Yamoussoukro, Côte d’Ivoire.
²Département de Neurochirurgie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Yopougon, Côte d’Ivoire.
³Département de Chirurgie Pédiatrique, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Treichville, Côte d’Ivoire.

The bone defects of the cranial vault encompassed rare malformations including acalvaria, hypocalvaria, acrania, hypocrania, anencephaly and exencephaly. They are also described in some pathological entities such as aplasia cutis congenita of the scalp. We report an unusual case of cephalic malformation which combine defects of the skin, the dura mater, and the bones of the vault, with a malformation of the central nervous system. This unique case emphasizes a problem of nosological definition between the terms mentioned above. acalvaria, the acrania, the hypocalvaria and the aplasia cutis congenita. Thus, herein, we proceed to a literature review of bone defects of the skull and their differential diagnosis.

Cranial Vault Defects, Acalvaria, Hypocalvaria, Aplasia Cutis Congenita, Congenital Malformation, Diagnosis

Maman You Espérance, B. , Landry, K. , Martial Olivier, M. , Didier, E. and Sanni, B. (2023) Bone Defect of the Cranial Vault: Difficulty of the Diagnostic about a Case, and Revew of Literature. Open Journal of Modern Neurosurgery, 13, 33-40. doi: 10.4236/ojmn.2023.131005.