Skull operation ????

Question

I got a question and I need serious answers...no making fun or anything....If there's a person that's 17 years old.....Now he doesn't have a big head....if you look at him from the front...his face is proportionated with his body....only the back of the head is really big...like where the hair is.....like reallyyyy much bigger than the face....is this a deformity from birth ?.....and if so....could it be hydrocephalus ??....can it be fixed ??

please serious answers

Answer 1

???- If "his" head is shaped as you described, it could well be the result of hydrocephalus which affects 1 in 500 newborns.  When found, it is common at childbirth when the skull bones (plates) are not all fused.  The fluid in the brain cavities (called ventricles) is unable to drain and causes the brain to expand along with the bony plates.  By the time a child reaches his 2nd birthday, the bones are fused tight.  When you ask "could it be fixed" I am guessing you mean now by surgery at age 17 years.  The answer is no and there is no need despite the odd shape of the head.  When first diagnosed, the treatment is most often by surgically inserting a shunt system. This system diverts the flow of CSF brain cerebrospinal fluid) from the brain to another area of the body where it can be absorbed as part of the normal circulatory process.

A shunt is a flexible but sturdy plastic tube. A shunt system consists of the shunt, a catheter, and a valve. One end of the catheter is placed within a ventricle inside the brain or in the CSF outside the spinal cord. The other end of the catheter is commonly placed within the abdominal cavity, but may also be placed at other sites in the body such as a chamber of the heart or areas around the lung where the CSF can drain and be absorbed. A valve located along the catheter maintains one-way flow and regulates the rate of CSF flow.