Developmental Posterior Enteric Remnants and Spinal Malformations: The Split Notochord Syndrome
Year: 1960
Type: article
Abstract: Clinicians have only recently recognized the aetiological factors that connect a wide variety of developmental anomalies of the skin of the back, the spine, the central nervous system and the gut (Beardmore and Wiglesworth, 1958; Nathan, 1959). Starting with the observations of Lereboullet (1863) on the formation of sagittally split embryos from artificially inseminated pike ova, evidence has slowly accumulated which shows their common origin from a single aberration of development. The many publications in the intervening years dealing with these apparently dissociated mal-formations have been difficult to correlate, due to variations in both terminology and suggested aetiology. The purpose of this paper is: (i) To
Source: Archives of Disease in Childhood
Authors: J. F. R. Bentley, J. R. Smith
Institutions: Royal Hospital for Children, University of Glasgow
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2003227221