Sacral Agenesis

It is important to recognize the patient with sacral agenesis and associated neurogenic bladder dysfunction before irremediable damage to the urinary tract occurs, as stressed by Thompson, Kirk, and Dale.1 It is also true that this entity is often occult. Thus, any clue to the diagnosis, or statisti...

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Published in:Pediatrics (Evanston) 1975-02, Vol.55 (2), p.300-301
Main Author: Lebowitz, Robert L.
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:It is important to recognize the patient with sacral agenesis and associated neurogenic bladder dysfunction before irremediable damage to the urinary tract occurs, as stressed by Thompson, Kirk, and Dale.1 It is also true that this entity is often occult. Thus, any clue to the diagnosis, or statistical association with another clinical problem, is of great help in identifying patients with this malformation, aptly termed "the syndrome of caudal regression" by Duhamel. Thompson, Kirk, and Dale failed to point out the striking incidence of sacral agenesis in infants of diabetic mothers, first noted in this journal by Rusnak and Driscoll.
ISSN:0031-4005
1098-4275
DOI:10.1542/peds.55.2.300c