Hawnaur J M, Hughes D, Jenkins J P, Bannister C M, Isherwood I
Department of Diagnostic Radiology, University of Manchester, U.K.
Eur J Pediatr Surg. 1991 Dec;1 Suppl 1:18-9. doi: 10.1055/s-2008-1042530.
Findings on Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of 52 children with suspected spinal dysraphism have been reviewed. In 24, no significant spinal abnormality was demonstrated. Seven patients had scoliosis or vertebral segmentation anomalies without demonstrable abnormality of the underlying soft tissues and one had an isolated subcutaneous haemangioma. In 20 children with spinal dysraphism, a low tethered cord was the most frequent finding, occurring in 80%. Other manifestations included myelo- or meningocoele (60%), syringomyelia (30%), lipoma (25%), congenital tumour (20%), diastematomyelia (15%) and thickened filum terminale (5%). The relationship between the clinical reason for requesting MRI and the scan results are discussed.
对52例疑似脊柱裂的儿童进行了磁共振成像（MRI）检查结果回顾。其中24例未显示明显的脊柱异常。7例患者有脊柱侧弯或椎体节段异常，但未发现潜在软组织异常，1例有孤立性皮下血管瘤。在20例脊柱裂患儿中，低位脊髓栓系是最常见的发现，发生率为80%。其他表现包括脊髓脊膜膨出（60%）、脊髓空洞症（30%）、脂肪瘤（25%）、先天性肿瘤（20%）、脊髓纵裂（15%）和终丝增粗（5%）。本文讨论了申请MRI检查的临床原因与扫描结果之间的关系。
