Investigation and treatment of a multiple limb birth
作者:
CopleyIan B.,
DerwaelIeric F.,
期刊:
British Journal of Neurosurgery
(Taylor Available online 1991)
卷期:
Volume 5,
issue 3
页码: 281-287
ISSN:0268-8697
年代: 1991
DOI:10.3109/02688699109005188
出版商: Taylor&Francis
关键词: Caudal duplication;cortical representation;multiple limbs;myelomeningocele;Siamese twin;spina bifida occulta
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
We report a baby born with three fully developed normally functioning legs. The third leg was attached to the baby's sacrum via an iliac bone at the site of a spina bifida. A primitive perineum was present. Innervation of the limb was via a sacral hiatus with a myelomeningocele. A rudimentary peritoneal sac was found at operation containing a blind loop of bowel suspended by a mesentery. The additional leg was found to have no cortical representation using somatic evoked potentials although lumbar responses were normal. Magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated a bifid spinal cord in the lumbo-sacral region. Associated abnormalities were a haemangioma of the L orbit and a vascular mass in the cerebellum.
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