Malformations of the spinal cord in 53 patients with spina bifida studied by magnetic resonance imaging
| Autor: | Jaap Valk, Parvin C. Azimullah, Elisabeth Rietveld-Knol, L.M.E. Smit |
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| Rok vydání: | 1991 |
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Male congenital hereditary and neonatal diseases and abnormalities medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Spina bifida occulta medicine Humans Abnormalities Multiple Child Spinal Dysraphism Hydromyelia Diastematomyelia medicine.diagnostic_test Spina bifida business.industry Infant Magnetic resonance imaging General Medicine medicine.disease Spinal cord Magnetic Resonance Imaging Syringomyelia Arnold-Chiari Malformation nervous system diseases Surgery medicine.anatomical_structure Spinal Cord Child Preschool Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Female Neurology (clinical) Neurosurgery business Hydrocephalus |
| Zdroj: | Child's Nervous System. 7 |
| ISSN: | 1433-0350 0256-7040 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/bf00247858 |
| Popis: | The incidence of associated malformations of the hindbrain and spinal cord in patients with spina bifida was investigated by a clinical and magnetic resonance study. The incidence of these malformations in combination with spina bifida was 49/53 (92.5%). Fifty-tree children born with spina bifida aperta (40 patients) or spina bifida occulta (13 patients) formed the study group. The incidence of the various malformations were: Chiari malformations, type I, 10/53 (19%), and type II, 20/53 (38%); syringomyelia, 13/53 (24.5%); hydromyelia 4/53 (7.5%); tethered cord malformation, 35/53 (66%); diastematomyelia 2/53 (4%). Thirty-seven of the 49 patients with associated malformations had no clinical signs at the time of our study. The results point to the fact that in the pediatric age group, associated spinal defects often remain asymptomatic. |
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