Muldisciplinary evaluation of patients with anterior encephalocele: analysis of cranial, brain, neuropsychological and language disorders / Avaliação multidisciplinar de pacientes com encefalocele anterior: análise das alterações cranianas, encefálicas, neuropsicológicas e de linguagem

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2008

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Objective: To evaluate cranial and brain abnormalities in patients with anterior encephalocele and to analyze relevant aspects to their neuropsychological development, language and quality of live. Model: Transversal study in patients with anterior encephalocele, who underwent a multidisciplinary team assessment (craniofacial, socioeconomic, neuroradiological, neuropsychological and language evaluations). Setting: Hospital de Reabilitação de Anomalias Craniofaciais, Universidade de São Paulo (HRAC-USP), Bauru. Participants: Ten patients with anterior encephalocele accompanied by the craniofacial surgery team of the HRAC-USP, who underwent neuroradiological (skull computed tomography and brain magnetic resonance), socioeconomic, neuropsychological, language and quality of life evaluations. Results: There was predominance of frontoethmoidal encephaloceles (70% of patients), and corpus callosum malformation was the most frequent brain abnormality (60%). Intellectual disability was observed in 30%, language disorder in 40% and learning disorder in 30%. Significant statistical correlation (p=0,045) was found between neuropsychological and language diagnoses. Variables such as socioeconomic status, parents educational level, brain abnormalities and quality of life did not correlate either to neuropsychological or language findings. Factor II (pessimism) of the short form of the questionnaire on resources and stress was predominant in 60% of the cases. Conclusions: Cranial, brain, neuropsychological and language disorders of patients with anterior encephalocele were analyzed, showing presence of correlation between the neuropsychological diagnosis and the language one.

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encefalocele neuropsychology linguagem quality of life language neuropsicologia diagnóstico por imagem diagnostic imaging encephalocele qualidade de vida.

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