... or of their effectiveness, quality or safety. The publisher and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Lumbosacral Lipomyelomeningocele Lateral Lipomyelomeningocele...

... Lipomyelomeningocele Surgical site infections Gram-negative infections In the general neurosurgical literature, the vast majority of surgical site infections (SSIs) are due to gram-positive organisms, with only 5–8% due to gram-negative organisms [ 1, 2 ]. Primarily for this reason, cefazolin has been...

...Seyed Vahid Heidari; Reza Mollahoseini; Hasan Ghandehari; Ehsan Farhadi; Fatemeh Abbasi; Sina Asaadi; Mehdi Soulat; Karen Bavand; Farideh Nejat Cervical lipomyelomeningocele is a very rare form of spina bifida occulta, which can cause some complications following tethered cord syndrome. We report...

...Arash Esmaeili; Sara Hanaei; Kaveh Fadakar; Sahar Dadkhah; Mahdi Arjipour; Zohreh Habibi; Farideh Nejat; Mostafa El Khashab Background: In general, it seems that both genetic and environmental factors play important roles in the induction of neural tube defects. Lipomyelomeningocele (LipoMMC...

... and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. lipomyelomeningocele Split cord malformation Ectopic or accessory digits attached to the back with other...

...Kanwaljeet Garg; Rajinder Kumar References 1. Pang D, Dias MS, Ahab-Barmada M: Split cord malformation. I. A unified theory of embryogenesis for double spinal cord malformations. Neurosurgery 1992;31:451-480. 2. Forrester MB, Merz RD: Descriptive epidemiology of lipomyelomeningocele...

... are presented. A 3-month-old girl had a combination of both types of SCMs at the level of T11. The 2nd case, a 2-week-old girl, had type-II SCM associated with a thickened filum terminale, lipomyelomeningocele and ectopic renal tissue within lipoma. A lipomatous tract extending from a subcutaneous lipoma...

... in a single patient who had a lipomyelomeningocele, in 182 patient-years of follow-up. Four patients with low lying conus had preemptive spinal cord exploration for release of tethering in order to prevent neurological deterioration. Patients with agenesis or dysgenesis of the sacrum should undergo magnetic...

... on a prophylactic basis, and careful and constant follow-up should be carried out to permit prompt reintervention in cases with deterioration. 3 09 1996 27 04 1997 7 3 2008 AbstractLipoma Lipomyelomeningocele Filum terminale Tethered cord Children N^Peeudrioastruircgery Original Paper...

...Paul M. Kanev; Karin S. Bierbrauer A retrospective analysis of patients with lipomyelomeningocele cared for at two referral centers was completed to derive relationships between neurological function and patient age. Thirty-seven percent of 177 patients had intact neurological function on initial...

... in this study was significantly better than the natural history of spinal lipomas. Several risk factors were identified that may predispose children to delayed postoperative deterioration: an initial cosmetic procedure; the presence of preoperative symptoms, and the presence of a lipomyelomeningocele. 27...

...James M. Herman; David G. McLone; Bruce B. Storrs; Robert C. Dauser After primary repair of myelomeningoceles or lipomyelomeningoceles, late progressive neurologic deterioration commonly occurs due to a treatable cause. In our experience many of these patients have a tethered cord. With early...

... exstrophy, 5 with the Vater association, 3 with imperforate anus, and 5 with other complex anomalies. Tethering spinal cord lesions included myelocystocele, lipomyelomeningocele, and filum lipoma. We review the clinical course, management, correlation of MRI and intraoperative findings, and outcome...

... lipomyelomeningocele, and cervical diplomyelia with right hemicord terminating in a blind pouch. Anterior and posterior cervical and thoracic fusion with instrumentation was performed at the age of 3 years, and on follow-up the patient had improvement in right upper extremity strength. Complex spinal dysraphism...

...Wolfgang Wagner; Dorothee Koch Malignant tumors arising within dysrhaphic malformations are very rare and are mostly teratomas; so far, only one rhabdomyosarcoma has been reported in this context. We report another case of a girl with lipomyelomeningocele who developed a lumbar rhabdomyosarcoma 2...

... tissue which appears to be visually indistinguishable from nervous tissue in lipomyelomeningoceles (LMMs). Methods: The following solutes (in normal saline) were investigated, both at 25 and 37°C: beta-carotene, vitamin D, vitamin E, lecithin, hydrogen peroxide, lipase, protease, hyaluronidase, partially...

... malformation Diastematomyelia Lipomyelomeningocele The male predominance in birth ratios has been suggested as an evolutionary adaptation to the higher newborn and infant mortality for males. The concept is that more males need to be born to have sufficient numbers of survivors for maintenance...

... or safety. The publisher and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Spinal lipoma Lipomyelomeningocele Occult spinal dysraphism Tethered cord Thickened...

...Ahmet Colak; Ian F. Pollack; A. Leland Albright The authors reviewed the records of 94 patients who underwent initial repair of a lipomyelomeningocele between 1982 and July 1996 at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh to determine the incidence and time course of symptomatic retethering. In each...