Voorbeelden van spina

• It may be right for the woman to take the folic acid antagonist, even if this causes spina bifida in her foetus.

• The hitchhiker mutant is characterized by multiple developmental abnormalities, including exencephaly, spina bifida, oedema and polydactyly.

• The results from this study, therefore, accurately depict the natural history of spina bifida in that era.

• The precise delineation of the level of involvement in spina bifida may provide important information to predict postnatal neurological deficits.

• Of the 113 diagnosed cases of spina bifida among newborns during this time period, only 38 (33.6%) were diagnosed before 24 weeks of gestation.

• The incidence of spina bifida and anencephaly, according to reports, has declined in some parts of the world but not in others.

• Several authors have focused on specific parts of the fetal skeleton, such as the spine, skull or neural tube defect (spina bifida or acrania).

• Traumatizing effect of breech delivery on infants with spina bifida.

• Let's assume that folic acid is necessary to reduce the chance of the foetus developing spina bifida.

• Special studies, however, indicate that there are about 20 % more births with spina bifida than with anencephaly.

• Physicians reported 22 such cases, all of which involved newborns with spina bifida and hydrocephalus.

• When the neural tube fails to close at the caudal end, a severe form of spina bifida known as rachischisis occurs.

• The incidence of spina bifida is often underestimated because in public records many instances of hydrocephalus secondary to spina bifida are classified as 'hydrocephalus'.

• By contrast, maternal - fetal surgery for spina bifida involves intervening for a nonlethal anomaly.

• Open spina bifida: outcome for a complete cohort treated unselectively and followed into adulthood.