Surgical treatment of certain forms of developmental defects of the skull and brain in children

: The work deals with the specific features of the diagnosis and the difficulty in choosing the method of surgical management and its expediency in infants with peculiar atypical forms of developmental anomalies of the skull and brain, very large extracranial protrusions the dimensions of which in some cases are many times higher than those of the child's head. Operations aimed at correcting the enormous herniations are conducive to the improvement in the physical and mental development of the children, make care of the children easier, and allow some of them to be discharged from the children's establishment and returned to their parents.