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The term ‘Cephalocele’ has been applied to all those tumours which project through a gap or deficiency in the bones of the vault and base of the skull. The tumour may be congenital or traumatic in origin: the membranes of the brain may alone protrude (meningocele), or the tumour may be composed of normal or altered brain-substance: all the varying conditions, however, are included under one term—cephalocele. Congenital and traumatic cephaloceles differ, however, so markedly from one another, both with regard to their pathology and treatment, that they must be considered separately.