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Spina bifida CT scan

Introduction

Overview

Overview

CT scan is not widely used for diagnosis of spina bifida but, it may be helpful in the diagnosis of hydrocephalus and during childhood, a patient with spina bifida will have multiple CT scans of the head.

CT scan

CT scan

  • CT scan is not widely used for diagnosis of spina bifida but, it may be helpful in the diagnosis of hydrocephalus and during childhood, a patient with spina bifida will have multiple CT scans of the head. [1][2]
Spina bifida CT scan. Case courtesy of Dr Hani Salam, <a href="https://radiopaedia.org/">Radiopaedia.org</a>. From the case <a href="https://radiopaedia.org/cases/8909">rID: 8909</a>
Spina bifida CT scan. Case courtesy of Dr Hani Salam, <a href=”https://radiopaedia.org/“>Radiopaedia.org</a>. From the case <a href=”https://radiopaedia.org/cases/8909“>rID: 8909</a>
References

References

  1. ↑ Ryder RW, Nsa W, Hassig SE, Behets F, Rayfield M, Ekungola B, Nelson AM, Mulenda U, Francis H, Mwandagalirwa K (June 1989). “Perinatal transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 to infants of seropositive women in Zaire”. N. Engl. J. Med. 320 (25): 1637–42. doi:10.1056/NEJM198906223202501. PMID 2786145.
  2. ↑ Chern JJ, Muhleman M, Tubbs RS, Miller JH, Johnston JM, Wellons JC, Blount JP, Oakes WJ, Rozzelle CJ (June 2012). “Clinical evaluation and surveillance imaging in children with spina bifida aperta and shunt-treated hydrocephalus”. J Neurosurg Pediatr. 9 (6): 621–6. doi:10.3171/2012.2.PEDS11353. PMID 22656253.

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