Fourth ventriculocoele

Last revised by Marcin Czarniecki on 27 Jul 2022

A fourth ventriculocoele is large posterior fossa cyst which remodels, thins and eventually erodes through the occipital bone to form an occipital encephalocoele.

It may be classified as part of the Dandy-Walker continuum, but this is controversial.

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