Thoracic meningocele, meningomyelocele or myelocystocele? Diagnostic difficulties, consequent implications and treatment

Pediatric Neurosurgery

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 75-79

  Arts, M P ^a   De Jong, T H R ^a  

^a SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Abortion; Meningocele; Meningomyelocele; Myelocystocele; Spina bifida cystica

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHIARI FROMMEL SYNDROME; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; MALE; MENINGOCELE; MENINGOMYELOCELE; MYELOCYSTOCELE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEWBORN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ARNOLD-CHIARI MALFORMATION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGOCELE; MENINGOMYELOCELE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; REOPERATION; SPINA BIFIDA CYSTICA; SPINAL CORD; SYRINGOMYELIA; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNT;

EID: 4043076447     PISSN: 10162291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000078912     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. Doran PA, Guthkelch A: Studies in spinal bifida cystica. 1. General survey and reassessment of the problem. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1961;24:331-345.
2. Ersahin Y, Barcin E, Mutluer S: Is meningocele really an isolated lesion? Childs Nerv Syst 2001;17:487-490.
3. Kumar R, Singh SN: Spinal dysraphism: Trends in northern India. Pediatr Neurosurg 2003;38:133-145.
4. Laurence K: A declining incidence of neural tube defects in the UK. Z Kinderchir 1989;44(suppl 1):51.
5. Moore KL: The Developing Human. Clinically Oriented Embryology. Philadelphia, Saunders, 1988.
6. Steinbok P, Cochrane DD: The nature of congenital posterior cervical or cervicothoracic midline cutaneous mass lesions. Report of eight cases. J Neurosurg 1991;75:206-212.
7. Steinbok P, Cochrane DD: Cervical meningoceles and myelocystoceles: A unifying hypothesis. Pediatr Neurosurg 1995;23:317-322.
8. Steinbok P: Dysraphic lesions of the cervical spinal cord. Neurosurg Clin N Am 1995;6:367-376.
9. Pang D, Dias MS: Cervical myelomeningoceles. Neurosurgery 1993;33:363-372.
10. Delashaw JB, Park TS, Cail WM, Vollmer DG: Cervical meningocele and associated spinal anomalies. Childs Nerv Syst 1987;3:165-169.
11. Unsinn KM, Geley T, Freund MC, Gassner I: US of the spinal cord in newborns: Spectrum of normal findings, variants, congenital anomalies, and acquired diseases. Radiographics 2000;20:923-938.
12. Sattar TS, Bannister CM, Russell SA, Rimmer S: Pre-natal diagnosis of occult spinal dysraphism by ultrasonography and post-natal evaluation by MR scanning. Eur J Pediatr Surg 1998;8(suppl 1):31-33.
13. Kolble N, Huisman TA, Stallmach T, et al: Prenatal diagnosis of a fetus with lumbar myelocystocele. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol 2001;18:536-539.