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Fluids and Barriers of the CNS
Published in: Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 1/2010

Open Access 01-12-2010 | Oral presentation

Multiple surgeries in paediatric patients with myelomeningocele. Can we define quantitative and qualitative evolution patterns according to the level of spinal lesion?

Authors: Eulália Calado, Humberto Marreiros, Clara Loff

Published in: Fluids and Barriers of the CNS | Special Issue 1/2010

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Children with myelomeningocele are usually submitted to multiple surgeries, since first days of life to late adolescence, with long stays in hospital and family life disruption. However the number and type of surgeries are not the same in every child with myelomeningocele across the time and from child to child. We have attempted to define a pattern of surgeries in patients with myelomeningocele and Chiari II malformation across the time (0-18 years), according to the spinal level. …
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Title
Multiple surgeries in paediatric patients with myelomeningocele. Can we define quantitative and qualitative evolution patterns according to the level of spinal lesion?
Authors
Eulália Calado
Humberto Marreiros
Clara Loff
Publication date
01-12-2010
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Fluids and Barriers of the CNS / Issue Special Issue 1/2010
Electronic ISSN: 2045-8118
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1743-8454-7-S1-S15

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