A Case Report of Traumatic Temporal Cephalocele by Erika Vento in TBSND - Juniper publishers
A 40-year-old male patient, hit by a car two years 
ago, evolved with hypoacusis (hearing impairment) and tissue projecting 
into the left external auditory canal, detected by otoscopic 
examination.
A computed tomography revealed an oblique fracture of
 the left temporal bone associated with hypoattenuation of the adjacent 
cerebral parenchyma compatible with parenchymal contusion. Bone 
discontinuity of the tympanic tegmen with the presence of hypo 
attenuating material in the tympanic cavity and in the homolateral 
mastoid cells was also observed, this being non-specific to the method.
Subsequently submitted to a magnetic resonance of the
 skull, meningoencephalic content was distinguished within the tympanic 
cavity from the middle cranial fossa/tympanic tegmen, representing 
post-traumatic cephalocele.

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