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What are the symptoms associated with small posterior fossa? occipital headache, what else?

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Dr. Johanna Fricke answered

Specializes in Pediatrics - Developmental and Behavioral

An MRI would reveal: Any brain abnormalities associated with a small posterior fossa. If the space is too small for the cerebellum ; brainstem, they are pushed downward. Depending on how far downward, chiari i or chiari ii malformation occurs, associated with hydrocephalus if the cerebro-spinal fluid can't circulate properly. A small posterior fossa is seen in other, rarer syndromes like joubert.

Answered 4/2/2014

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