OPERATIVE TECHNIC IN SPINA BIFIDA BIFIDA

Lenticonus in spina bifida

Anterior lenticonus is a rare anomaly, first described by Webster (I874), which is frequently associated with Alport's syndrome of nephritis and perceptual deafness. A report of the 42 cases recorded up to I966 is given by Arnott, Crawfurd, and Toghill, i966. South Wales has an unusually high incidence of spina bifida. The incidence was found to be 3-92 per iooo in Glamorgan and Monmouthshire w...

Spina Bifida (Myelomeningocele)

Studies in Spina Bifida Cystica

Nicolai Tulp, the physician whose features are immortalized in Rembrandt's painting 'The School of Anatomy', first suggested the name 'spina bifida' (Tulpius, 1652), though the condition was known to Hippocrates, and the mediaeval Arab physicians are said (Denuce, 1906) to have specifically recognized the absence of the spinous processes in the affected area. Ruysch (1691) distinguished between...

Sirenomelia with spina bifida.

Sirenomelia is an exceptionally rare cogenital malformation characterized by a single fused lower limb. This deformity is variably known as symmelia, sympodia monopodia, sympus and due to its resemblance to the mermaid of Greek and Roman mythology popularly also known as mermaid baby. Sirenomelia has prevalence of 1.5 4.2 cases per 100,000 births(l). About 300 cases of this lethal anomaly have ...

Tumour Simulating Spina Bifida

The patient enjoyed excellent health from his childhood up to the age of 21, when he felt a peculiar sensation of heat and burning over his waist. On rubbing his finger over the part, he felt the skin a little raised. The pain and the swelling lasted for a fortnight or so when it was cured by a hakim of his place. Three months after the alleged cure, he noticed a fluctuating tumour about the si...