Spinal Dysraphism

• Spinal Dysraphism¹
  • Skin defect present
    • Open Spinal Dysraphism
      • Myelomeningocoele
      • Myelocoele
      • Hemi-myelomeningocoele
      • Hemi-myelocoele
  • Skin defect absent
    • Closed Spinal Dysraphism
      • With subcutaneous mass
        • Cervical
          • Cervical myelomeningocoele
          • Cervical myelocystocoele
          • Meningocoele
        • Thoracolumbar
          • Lipomyelomeningocoele
          • Lipomyelocoele
          • Terminal myelocystocoele
          • Meningocoele
      • Without subcutaneous mass
        • Simple
          • Dorsal dermal sinus
          • Lipoma (intradural/filar)
          • Tight filum terminale
          • Persistent 4th ventricle
          • Abnormally elongated spinal cord
        • Complex
          • Neurenteric cyst
          • Split cord malformation
          • Dorsal enteric fistula
          • Caudal regression syndrome
          • Segmental spinal dysgenesis

References

1. Trapp, B., de Andrade Lourenção Freddi, T., de Oliveira Morais Hans, M., Fonseca Teixeira Lemos Calixto, I., Fujino, E., Alves Rojas, L.C., Burlin, S., Cerqueira Costa, D.M., Carrete Junior, H., Abdala, N. and Tobaru Tibana, L.A., 2021. A practical approach to diagnosis of spinal dysraphism. Radiographics, 41(2), pp.559-575. ↩︎