Open AccessSuboccipital double barrel twin meningocoele: Another new theory?
Author(s) -
Puneet K Goyal,
Daljit Singh,
Hukum Singh,
Monica Tandon
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of pediatric neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1998-3948
pISSN - 1817-1745
DOI - 10.4103/1817-1745.76109
Subject(s) - medicine , neural tube , lumbosacral joint , barrel (horology) , closure (psychology) , neural tube defect , anatomy , embryo , genetics , materials science , economics , market economy , composite material , biology
Meningomyelocoele (MMC) forms one of the commonest forms of neural tube defect (NTD). It commonly affects lumbosacral area. Double or triple MMC has been reported at various sites of the spine. This supports multiple site closure of neural tube. We report a case of double MMC located at back of head, adjacent to each other like twin MMC. To our best knowledge, such defect has never been reported in the literature and raises query of our current understanding of embryogenesis of NTDs.