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What is The name of the condition when an edema or lesion exerts pressure within the cranial compartment and shifts the skull's contents?
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∙ 14y ago
The condition mentioned is brain herniation.
According to place of lesion the brain contents may shift by structures called falx, tentorium and also sometimes foramen magnum ( hole through which the spinal cord passes)
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XII
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