The practice of surgery . Spina bifida (meningocele) (Massachusetts General Hospital). infants birth to distinguish meningocele from myelocystocele. Thedifferential diagnosis must be founded on the absence of symptoms inmeningocele, and on the paralytic conditions in myelocystocele. The only possible effective treatment in either of the more favorableforms of spina bifida (meningocele and myelocystocele) is by some formof operation. We can, however, assure the childs parents that menin-gocele is not necessarily very serious; but that a child the victim ofmyelocystocele, if it should not die yo
The practice of surgery . Spina bifida (meningocele) (Massachusetts General Hospital). infants birth to distinguish meningocele from myelocystocele. Thedifferential diagnosis must be founded on the absence of symptoms inmeningocele, and on the paralytic conditions in myelocystocele. The only possible effective treatment in either of the more favorableforms of spina bifida (meningocele and myelocystocele) is by some formof operation. We can, however, assure the childs parents that menin-gocele is not necessarily very serious; but that a child the victim ofmyelocystocele, if it should not die young, will continue in a wretched,crippled condition only. Taking all forms of spina bifida, we learn from statistics that theirprognosis is bad, for ulceration and rupture, followed by meningeal in-fection, is the probable outcome. Sometimes a palliative aspiration,repeated as seems advisable, will postpone the inevitable aspiration should be done through the base of the tumor, and 684 THE HEAD AND SPINE the n
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