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A young man was found lying in a ditch at the side of road near his parked motor vehicle. The mechanism of injury was uncertain and, although he was alert at the scene, it was not clear if there had been loss of consciousness prior to ambulance arrival. The patient...

CONCLUSION: Conventional three-plane lumbosacral MR imaging in children and young adults suspected of having occult dysraphism provides better diagnostic information than does fast screening two-plane MR imaging because of its higher specificity and interobserver agreement.
Occult lumbosacral dysraphism in children and young adults: diagnostic performance of fast screening and conventional MR...

FULL-TERM, 2725-g female infant was born by vacuum extraction delivery following an uncomplicated pregnancy. The infant appeared normal except for a tuft of dark hair covering the skin of the lumbar area (Figure 1). She moved her extremities well and showed normal sensation and strength.
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2002...

This study supports the hypothesis that SBO impairs control of postural sway in both the resting upright and stressful postures. Our results imply that the larger the bone defect at the lumbosacral midline, the more the group differences in different stressful conditions. Both velocity and intensity were able to reflect...

AIM: The aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between the clinical evidence of foot deformities in spina bifida occulta and the associated neurophysio-logical damage. METHODS: The authors studied 47 patients with foot deformities (37 flat foot, 10 pes cavus) and vertebral cleft, variably associated with enuresis, midline...