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This digital document is an article from U.S. Kids, published by Children's Better Health Institute on October 1, 1994. The length of the article is 695 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Great swim! (Allie Schneider swims competitively even though spina bifida prevents her from using her legs)
Author: Layne Cameron
Publication: U.S. Kids (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 1994
Publisher: Children's Better Health Institute
Volume: v7Issue: n7Page: p30(4)

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Quadriplegia, also known as tetraplegia, is paralysis caused by illness or injury to a human that results in the partial or total loss of use of all of their limbs and torso; paraplegia is similar but does not affect the arms. The loss is usually sensory and motor, which means both sensation and control are lost. It is caused by damage to the brain or the spinal cord at a high level C1 - C8 - in particular, spinal cord injuries secondary to an injury to the cervical spine. ... Read more

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Chapters: Syringomyelia, Spina Bifida, Pachygyria, Hydrocephalus, Arnold-Chiari Malformation, Anencephaly, Holoprosencephaly, Diastomatomyelia, Encephalocele, Lissencephaly, Microcephaly, Septo-Optic Dysplasia, Hydranencephaly, Porencephaly, Schizencephaly, Polymicrogyria, Megalencephaly, Currarino Syndrome, Rachischisis, Central Nervous System Cyst, Bilateral Frontoparietal Polymicrogyria. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 118. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Spina bifida (Latin: "split spine") is a developmental birth defect caused by the incomplete closure of the embryonic neural tube. Some vertebrae overlying the spinal cord are not fully formed and remain unfused and open. If the opening is large enough, this allows a portion of the spinal cord to protrude through the opening in the bones. There may or may not be a fluid-filled sac surrounding the spinal cord. Other neural tube defects include anencephaly, a condition in which the portion of the neural tube which will become the cerebrum does not close, and encephalocele, which results when other parts of the brain remain unfused. Spina bifida malformations fall into four categories: spina bifida occulta, spina bifida cystica (myelomeningocele), meningocele and lipomeningocele. The most common location of the malformations is the lumbar and sacral areas . Myelomeningocele is the most significant form and it is this that leads to disability in most affected individuals. The terms spina bifida and myelomeningocele are usually used interchangeably. Spina bifida can be surgically closed after birth, but this does not restore normal function to the affected part of the spinal cord. Intrauterine surgery for spina bifida has also been performed and the safety and efficacy of this procedure is currently being investigated. The inciden...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=208860 ... Read more

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Das Buch enth{lt die wissenschaftlichen Beitr{ge der 17.Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft f}r Neurop{diatrie inStuttgart 1991.Einen thematischen Schwerpunkt bilden die Reflex-Epilepsien,von denen differentialdiagnostischnicht-epileptischeReflexanf{lle abzugrenzen sind. Die Therapie dieserAnfallsformen wirft h{ufig gro~e Probleme auf.Zweiter thematischer Schwerpunkt ist eine Bestandsaufnahmeund Wertung der Therapie der malignen Hirntumoren imKindesalter. Grundlagen und neue Erkenntnisse dertherapeutischen Behandlungsm|glichkeiten werden verglichenundgewertet. Lokalisation und biologische Wertigkeit derspeziellen Tumorformenund auch das Alter der Patientenhaben wesentlichen Einflu~ auf die PrognosedieserKrankheitsgruppe, wobei Hirntumoren im Neugeborenen- undS{uglingsalter gesondert abgehandelt werden.WichtigeThemenschwerpunkte sind auch dieinterdisziplin{re Behandlungmehrfach behinderter Kinder undJugendlicher mit Spina bifida, angefangen beineurochirurgischen Erstversorgung }ber die orthop{discheBehandlung,die p{diatrisch-nephrologische Betreuung bis hinzu den vielschichtigen sozialp{diatrischen Problemen undpsychologischen Auswirkungen. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Brain and Cognition, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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The spatial knowledge of 18 children with spina bifida and 18 healthy control children (matched according to sex, age, and verbal IQ) was investigated in a computer-simulated environment. All children had to learn a route through a virtual floor system containing 18 landmarks. Controlling for cognitive abilities, the results revealed that children with spina bifida showed impaired route knowledge but not an impaired landmark knowledge. Thus the results suggest that children with spina bifida are not impaired in all large-scale abilities similarly. The impairments of the children with spina bifida are more accentuated in more behaviour based measurements, which indicates a relation to the reduced mobility of the children with spina bifida. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Neuropsychologia, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Children with spina bifida meningomyelocele and hydrocephalus (SBM) have congenital dysmorphology of the midbrain and thinning of the posterior cortex, brain regions associated with the control of covert orienting. We studied cued covert orienting in 92 children with SBM, and 40 age-matched typically developing controls. Cues were of three types: exogenous (luminance change in a peripheral box either valid or invalid for upcoming target location), endogenous arrow (a central arrow either valid or invalid for upcoming target location), or endogenous word (a central word either valid or invalid for upcoming target location). Compared to controls, children with SBM showed slowed covert orienting to both exogenous and endogenous cues and a higher cost of attentional disengagement (e.g., a greater cue-validity effect) for exogenous although not for endogenous cues. Covert orienting deficits were associated with midbrain dysmorphology in the form of beaking of the tectum, and with right posterior brain volume loss. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Pediatric News, published by Thomson Gale on May 1, 2007. The length of the article is 435 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Moving teens with spina bifida to adult health care.
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication: Pediatric News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 41Issue: 5Page: 64(1)

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It is only one page. I'm a parent of a teen with spina bifida. I learned nothing. It says, basically "There is a need" and "We were lucky". No how-to, no strategies ... nothing that can be used to try to help get care for someone who really needs to stay in a team enviornment. Sigh. ... Read more

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The article is excerpted fromGale Encyclopedia of Medicine.

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Spina Bifida, Lissencéphalie, Malformations Congénitales Du Système Nerveux Central, Syndrome de Joubert, Agénésie Du Corps Calleux, Syringomyélie, Malformation de Dandy-Walker, Hydranencéphalie, Anomalies de Développement Du Cortex Cérébral, Polymicrogyrie. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Le spina bifida (du latin signifiant « épine fendue en deux ») est une malformation congénitale liée à un défaut de fermeture du tube neural durant la vie embryonnaire. Le plus souvent il reste ouvert à son extrémité caudale. Il en résulte l'absence de l'apophyse épineuse d'une ou plusieurs vertèbres. La protrusion des méninges par cette déhiscence donne un méningocèle. De gravité variable, ces malformations vont du spina bifida occulta au myéloméningocèle. Si ces méninges sont accompagnées de moelle épinière, la malformation est appelée myéloméningocèle. Elle concerne une naissance sur 2000. 12% des spina bifida n'entraînent qu'un handicap léger. La localisation la plus typique des malformations est le pôle caudal de l'embryon (qui correspond à la région lombaire de l'enfant à naître). Parfois les nerfs lombo-sacrés sont affectés par le spina bifida, ils participent normalement : Il représente la forme mineure et la plus répandue de la malformation. Il n'existe pas d'ouverture ni de déformation cutanée dans la région lombo-sacrée (la peau en regard des anomalies peut rester normale ou porter une zone très poilue, un nævus ou un hémangiome, voire une petite dépression du derme). Pourtant la radio révèle une fermeture incomplète de la partie postérieure de la vertèbre. Dans cette forme, la fente reste très limitée, et la moelle épinière n'en dépasse pas (il n'y a pas de protrusion). Les conséquences de cette fo...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from National Right to Life News, published by National Right to Life Committee, Inc. on December 1, 1999. The length of the article is 1313 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Unborn Babies with Spina Bifida Find Hope in Fetal Surgery.
Author: Liz Townsend
Publication: National Right to Life News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 1999
Publisher: National Right to Life Committee, Inc.
Volume: 26Issue: 13Page: NA

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