An unusual case of dorsally situated bony spur in a lumbar split cord malformation

Pediatric Neurosurgery

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 49-52

  Chandra, P Sarat ^a   Kamal, Raj ^a   Mahapatra, ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Dorsal bony spur; Hypothesis of split cord; Lumbar diastometamyelia; Split cord malformation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; LUMBAR SPINE; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MALE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; OSTEOPHYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORY;

CHILD; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM;

EID: 0032716225     PISSN: 10162291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000028831     Document Type: Article

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