Morphological diagnosis of these lesions is not easy, and the attending pediatrician and neurosurgeon should be familiar with the differential diagnosis of such lesions and be prepared for possible time-consuming operation mandatory to achieve total resection of the lesion in a newborn under general anesthesia. Reviewing the possible theories regarding the genesis of such anomalies, it is hypothesized and suggested that all similar cases could have been of hamartomatous origin rather than defects of embryogenesis.
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