Children with Spina Bifida: Key Clinical Issues

Pediatric Clinics of North America

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 879-892

  Sandler, Adrian D ^a,b  

^a Mission Children's Hospital   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydrocephalus; Myelomeningocele; Spina bifida; Treatment

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ENEMA; FOLIC ACID;

ARNOLD CHIARI MALFORMATION; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CAST APPLICATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLUBFOOT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CYSTOSTOMY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FOOT ORTHOSIS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTERMITTENT CATHETERIZATION; LIPOMENINGOCELE; MENINGOMYELOCELE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NEUROGENIC BLADDER; NEUROGENIC BOWEL; OCULOMOTOR NERVE DISEASE; PHYSIOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SKIN INJURY; SPINA BIFIDA; SPINAL CORD SURGERY; SPLINTING; TENDON TRANSFER; TETHERED CORD SYNDROME; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; WALKING DIFFICULTY; WHEELCHAIR; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; INCIDENCE; NEWBORN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM;

EID: 77957162157     PISSN: 00313955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pcl.2010.07.009     Document Type: Review

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