Terminal hemimyelocystocele associated with Chiari II malformation

• Main Authors: Umamaheswara Reddy V. (Author), Amit Agrawal (Author), Kishor V. Hegde (Author), Venugopal Sharma (Author), Priya Malpani (Author), Venkatesh Manchikanti (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SpringerOpen, 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Terminal myelocystocele (TMC) results from failure of embryonic CSF to drain outside the neural tube creating CSF reservoir within a dorsal meningocele. Association of Chiari II malformation with diastematomyelia and myelocystocele is extremely rare. Myelocystoceles do not have neural tissue so they...