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Anorectal malformations associated spinal cord anomalies
- Source :
- Europe PubMed Central
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- SPRINGER, 2016.
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Abstract
- The present study aims to identify clinical and pathological factors that can predict the risk of spinal cord anomalies (SCA) in patients with anorectal malformations (ARM), the need for neurosurgery, and to define the impact of SCA on the outcome of patients with ARM. A 16-year retrospective analysis of all patients treated at a single tertiary children’s Hospital with diagnosis of ARM. Data were collected to assess the impact of defined clinical characteristics on prevalence of SCA (detected at MRI). Children surgically treated or not for SCA were compared for age, clinical symptoms and type of anomalies at surgery or at last follow-up, respectively. Moreover, patients with intermediate/high ARMs, with or without SCA were compared for neurogenic bladder (NB), constipation, soiling and need for bowel management (BM). Two hundred and seventy-five children were treated for ARM in the study period, 142 had spinal MRI that showed SCA in 85. Patients with SCA had significantly higher prevalence of preterm birth (p
- Subjects :
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Constipation
Neurogenic bladder
Urology
Bowel management
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
030225 pediatrics
Internal medicine
Pediatric surgery
Cryptorchidism
medicine
Humans
Spinal cord anomalies
Abnormalities, Multiple
Urinary Bladder, Neurogenic
Pathological
Retrospective Studies
Tethered cord
business.industry
Infant, Newborn
Bowel function
Infant
Retrospective cohort study
General Medicine
Spinal dysraphism
Sacrum
medicine.disease
VACTERL association
Anorectal malformations
Italy
Spinal Cord
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Settore MED/20
Female
Surgery
Neurosurgery
medicine.symptom
business
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Europe PubMed Central
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....af00ebc3838225162e316bf5489269c9