Lumbar Meningocele

MedGen UID:: 768675
•Concept ID:: C3640035
•: Disease or Syndrome

Definition

A congenital abnormality in the lumbar region of the spine in which the meninges protrude through a defect in the spinal column. [from NCI]

Term Hierarchy

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MeSH

CClinical test, RResearch test, OOMIM, GGeneReviews, VClinVar

CROGVLumbar Meningocele

Abnormality of prenatal development or birth
- Fetal anomaly
  - Congenital Systemic Disorder
    - Abnormality of the nervous system
      - Congenital meningocele
        Congenital spinal meningocele
        Lumbar Meningocele

Professional guidelines

PubMed

Treatment of lumbar and intrathoracic meningocele: bioethical implications.

Tornali C, Pratico' A, Vecchio F, Polizzi A, Ruggieri M, Vecchio I
Acta Biomed 2021 Jul 1;92(3):e2021211. doi: 10.23750/abm.v92i3.11600. PMID: 34212901 Free PMC Article

Spinal arachnoid cysts in adults: diagnosis and management. A single-center experience.

Fam MD, Woodroffe RW, Helland L, Noeller J, Dahdaleh NS, Menezes AH, Hitchon PW
J Neurosurg Spine 2018 Dec 1;29(6):711-719. Epub 2018 Sep 28 doi: 10.3171/2018.5.SPINE1820. PMID: 30265227

Surgical dural tears: prevalence and updated management protocol based on 1359 lumbar vertebra interventions.

Wolff S, Kheirredine W, Riouallon G
Orthop Traumatol Surg Res 2012 Dec;98(8):879-86. Epub 2012 Nov 15 doi: 10.1016/j.otsr.2012.06.016. PMID: 23158786

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Recent clinical studies

Etiology

Stereotactic neuroendoscopic management of hydrocephalus: a three-year follow-up and analysis of Malaysian children with aqueduct stenosis.

Abdullah J, Ariff AR, Ghazaime G, Naing NN
Stereotact Funct Neurosurg 2001;76(3-4):175-80. doi: 10.1159/000066716. PMID: 12378096

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Diagnosis

Filum Terminale Ependymoma in an Infant with Meningocele.

Huh A, Archer J, Gondim M, Ackerman LL, Fulkerson D
Pediatr Neurosurg 2020;55(1):46-50. Epub 2020 Jan 21 doi: 10.1159/000503638. PMID: 31962322

Rapidly progressive paraplegia due to an extradural lumbar meningocele mimicking a cyst. Case report.

Fiss I, Danne M, Hartmann C, Brock M, Stendel R
J Neurosurg Spine 2007 Jul;7(1):75-9. doi: 10.3171/SPI-07/07/075. PMID: 17633492

Prenatal diagnosis of diastematomyelia.

Sonigo-Cohen P, Schmit P, Zerah M, Chat L, Simon I, Aubry MC, Gonzales M, Pierre-Kahn A, Brunelle F
Childs Nerv Syst 2003 Aug;19(7-8):555-60. Epub 2003 Jul 4 doi: 10.1007/s00381-003-0771-8. PMID: 12845458

Meningocele-induced positional syncope and retinal hemorrhage.

Bekavac I, Halloran JI
AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2003 May;24(5):838-9. PMID: 12748081 Free PMC Article

Thoracic and lumbar meningocele in neurofibromatosis type 1. Report of two cases and review of the literature.

Rainov NG, Heidecke V, Burkert W
Neurosurg Rev 1995;18(2):127-34. doi: 10.1007/BF00417670. PMID: 7478016

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