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Sphenoid Wing Meningocele
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At the end of April 2016, a 29-year-old female patient came to our MRI unit, as an out-hospital patient, for a brain MRI. Her only symptom was headache: non-specific diffuse headache during several years, sometimes on daily basis.
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