Congenital spinal meningocele
Congenital
spinal meningocele • meningocele antenatale diagnosed - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia
Fetal
hydrocephalus • Fetal lumbar meningocele with hydrocephalus - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia
Congenital
spinal meningocele • Giant lateral thoracic meningocele - Ganzer Fall bei Radiopaedia
Congenital spinal meningoceles are developmental anomalies of meningothelial elements displaced into the skin and subcutaneous tissues.
Please refer to the meningocele article for a broad overview of all types of this condition.
Pathology
It is a defect of the neural tube, an embryonic structure that gives rise to the spinal cord and vertebral column. This defect leads to protrusion of the membranes that cover the spine and part of the spinal cord through a bone defect in the vertebral column.
Types
- dorsal meningocele
- anterior meningocele
- lateral meningocele
- lateral sacral meningocele
- lateral lumbar meningocele
Differential diagnosis
Possible considerations include
- pseudomeningocele - post traumatic
- myelomeningocele
- lipomyelomeningocele
Related Radiopaedia articles
Congenital spinal abnormalities
- anatomy
- cord
- cyst of the medullary conus
- diastematomyelia
- myelodysplasia
- canal
- spinal dysraphism
- dorsal dermal sinus
- meningocele
- lipomyelomeningocele
- myelomeningocele
- neural tube defect
- diastematomyelia
- rachischisis
- sacral dimple
- spina bifida
- tethered cord (occult spinal dysraphism sequence)
- thickened filum terminale
- Chiari malformations
- vertebra
- congenital scoliosis
