Spina bifida occulta: Is it a predictor of underlying spinal cord abnormality in patients with lower urinary tract dysfunction?

Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 114-117

  Nejat, Farideh ^a   Radmanesh, Farid ^a   Ansari, Saeed ^a   Tajik, Parvin ^a   Kajbafzadeh, Abdolmohammad ^a   El Khashab, Mostafa ^b  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional urinary complaint; Pediatric neurosurgery; Spina bifida occulta; Spinal cord abnormality

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIURNAL ENURESIS; ENTEROPATHY; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOWER URINARY TRACT SYMPTOM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICTURITION DISORDER; NOCTURNAL ENURESIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCULT SPINAL DYSRAPHISM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACRUM AGENESIS; SPINAL CORD MALFORMATION; SYRINGOMYELIA; TETHERED CORD SYNDROME; URINARY FREQUENCY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX;

ADOLESCENT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; CONSTIPATION; DIURNAL ENURESIS; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NOCTURNAL ENURESIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; SACRUM; SPINA BIFIDA OCCULTA; SPINAL CORD; SYRINGOMYELIA; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; URINATION DISORDERS; UROLOGIC DISEASES; VESICO-URETERAL REFLUX;

EID: 40849098880     PISSN: 19330707     EISSN: 19330715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/PED/2008/1/2/114     Document Type: Article

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