50 Years Ago in The Journal of Pediatrics: The Surgical Management of Meningoceles and Meningomyeloceles
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-1-2012
Abstract
Compared with physicians 50 years ago, today's readers of The Journal are far more familiar with survivors of myelomeningocele. Infants born with open neural tube defects were more common then, but the overwhelming majority were left to die within several months from meningitis, hydrocephalus, or renal failure. Surgical repair was seldom undertaken until the advent of sac closure and hydrocephalus shunting in the 1950s and 1960s.
Repository Citation
Lober, R. M.,
& Fisher, P. G.
(2012). 50 Years Ago in The Journal of Pediatrics: The Surgical Management of Meningoceles and Meningomyeloceles. The Journal of Pediatrics (4), 734.
https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/pediatrics/437
DOI
10.1016/j.jpeds.2012.05.019