Diseases

Spinal Dysraphism

Congenital defects of closure of one or more vertebral arches, which may be associated with malformations of the spinal cord, nerve roots, congenital fibrous bands, lipomas, and congenital cysts. These malformations range from mild (e.g., SPINA BIFIDA OCCULTA) to severe, including rachischisis where there is complete failure of neural tube and spinal cord fusion, resulting in exposure of the spinal cord at the surface. Spinal dysraphism includes all forms of spina bifida. The open form is called SPINA BIFIDA CYSTICA and the closed form is SPINA BIFIDA OCCULTA. (From Joynt, Clinical Neurology, 1992, Ch55, p34)

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Congenital defects of closure of one or more vertebral arches, which may be associated with malformations of the spinal cord, nerve roots, congenital fibrous bands, lipomas, and congenital cysts. These malformations range from mild (e.g., SPINA BIFIDA OCCULTA) to severe, including rachischisis where there is complete failure of neural tube and spinal cord fusion, resulting in exposure of the spinal cord at the surface. Spinal dysraphism includes all forms of spina bifida. The open form is called SPINA BIFIDA CYSTICA and the closed form is SPINA BIFIDA OCCULTA. (From Joynt, Clinical Neurology, 1992, Ch55, p34)

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  • Cleft Spine
  • Open Spine
  • Schistorrhachis
  • Spina Bifida
  • Spinal Dysraphia
  • Bifida, Spina
  • Cleft Spines
  • Dysraphia, Spinal
  • Dysraphism, Spinal
  • Dysraphisms, Spinal
  • Open Spines
  • Spina Bifidas
  • Spinal Dysraphias
  • Spinal Dysraphisms
  • Spine, Cleft
  • Spine, Open
  • Rachischisis
  • Status Dysraphicus
  • Dysraphicus, Status
  • Rachischises

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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.

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general or unspecified; prefer specifics

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1991(1964); for SPINA BIFIDA use SPINA BIFIDA OCCULTA 1978-1990, use SPINAL DYSRAPHISM 1966-1970

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  1. C10w.500w.680w.800
  2. C16w.131w.666w.680w.800

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Spinal Dysraphism. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D016135. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D016135
  2. Spinal Dysraphism. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1269334