Spinal dysraphism: A review of clinical manifestations and surgical treatment options

Authors :: Christopher G. Kalhorn
Jennifer A. Sweet
Source :: Seminars in Spine Surgery. 17:23-29
Publication Year :: 2005
Publisher :: Elsevier BV, 2005.
Abstract: Spinal dysraphism is used to describe a group of developmental abnormalities in which there is defective closure of the neural tube. The authors review the clinical manifestations and surgical treatment of occult and open spinal dysraphism.

Subjects :: medicine.medical_specialty
Spinal dysraphism
business.industry
Spina bifida
Neural tube
medicine.disease
Occult
Surgery
medicine.anatomical_structure
medicine
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
Surgical treatment
business
Tethered Cord

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