Changing Incidence, Outcome and Management of Myelomeningocele

Abstract

Pediatric neurosurgeons at Children’s Memorial Hospital, Chicago, review their long-term experience and the evolution of the etiology, diagnosis and management of patients born with myelomeningocele (MM) in 1975-1979 and followed for 25 years in a multi-disciplinary spina bifida clinic.

Keywords

• myelomeningocele
• folic acid
• management of mm