This lateral (from the side) 3D CT reconstruction of the skull in this infant several months after surviving meningitis shows evidence of severe brain atrophy (loss of brain tissue) as a complication of the meninigitis. Due to the low volume of the brain the skull is not expanding as it would normally do. Instead the frontal bone has collapsed due to the lack of normal expansion by the growing brain. This appearance of a small brain and skull is called microcephaly | |
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