Abstract Recurrent meningitis poses a diagnostic dilemma in which helplessness of the treating physician goes along way and continues to haunt him until the “bulls eye” is hit. Here we present a case of a young girl withfrequent episodes of meningitis in which conventional neuroimaging done each time missed the diagnosisof frontal meningoencephalocoele until a very high index of clinical suspicion of a possible anatomical bonydefect provoked the enthusiasm of the neuroradiologist for a reconstructed CT imaging thus confirming thediagnosis. [avf_view name="Article Addons" view-id="66d98451c48e3"]