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EyesOfCharisma
| | #1 posted April 7, 2009 at 8:56am (EDT) |
Well, I recently found out my daughter has Aplasia cutis.
Aplasia cutis (sometimes called ‘aplasia cutis congenita’) is a condition where a newborn child is missing skin from certain areas. In about 70% of cases it is a single lesion on the scalp, but sometimes multiple lesions may appear on other parts of the body. They vary in size from 0.5cm to 10cm.
Lesions that involve only the epidermis (upper layers of skin) are shallow and usually heal over with scarring before the child is born. A deeper lesion involving the dermis, subcutaneous tissue, or rarely, the skull may be ulcerated.
Membranous aplasia cutis is the term used when there is an underlying flat, white membrane, which overlies a defect in the skull. It can be associated with a neural cranial tube defect (encephalocoele or meningocoele), which can be demonstrated by ultrasound scan showing misplaced brain tissue outside the skull.
Well anyhow, I always noticed the mark, which looks like this:
But I had always thought it was something else. When I was delivering her, they had to put an internal monitor on her head so that they could get her heart rate and stuff. I thought that the mark on her head was from that, and that it scarred her head. Anyhow, we are meeting with a Neuro-Surgeon on the 15th of this month. I am pretty sure they will say she is fine, but it still worries me. They are doing a CT before her apt.
Anyone else ever heard of this? | Matty
| | #2 posted April 7, 2009 at 9:39am (EDT) |
No, but it sounds a little gruesome. What can you do? | EyesOfCharisma
| | #3 posted April 7, 2009 at 9:51am (EDT) |
Well they are considering surgery. It may be just elective or if they see something wrong with the skull they may HAVE to do it... I don't know!
p/s that is not MY kids head... it is just some kid who has it from a web site... | Matty
| | #4 posted April 7, 2009 at 9:57am (EDT) |
Gosh, that sounds awful. I'll say a prayer for you and your family. | Amanda
| | #5 posted April 7, 2009 at 2:53pm (EDT) |
I've never heard of it before. I hope things go well with the surgeon. Keep us updated. | verouge
| | #6 posted April 7, 2009 at 5:46pm (EDT) |
Oh, sorry for that, I never heard of that before, but hopefully, it's gona be easy! |
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