{"id":263,"date":"2023-04-14T20:39:02","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T20:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surgqs.dratef.net\/?p=263"},"modified":"2023-04-14T20:39:02","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T20:39:02","slug":"13-what-are-the-clinical-features-of-spina-bifida-occulta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surgqs.dratef.net\/?p=263","title":{"rendered":"13. What are the clinical features of spina bifida occulta?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<script src=\"https:\/\/cdn.synthesys.io\/js\/synthesys_widget.js?v=3.6\"><\/script>\n<script>\n    var sysWidget = new SysWidget({ token: \"473f9388-7e06-461e-95ff-b3a4d75e6798\" }); \n<\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>Correct answer:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is usually an incidental finding noted on X-ray. When overlying skin changes (dimple, hair tuft, lipoma, sinus) are present, the cord beneath may be tethered to the skin by a fibrous band, and, as the child grows weakness in the legs may occur with sensory loss, pes cavus, or difficulty with bladder and bowel sphincters \u2013 \u2018the tethered cord syndrome\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Correct answer: This is usually an incidental finding noted on X-ray. When overlying skin changes (dimple, hair tuft, lipoma, sinus) are present, the cord beneath may be tethered to the skin by a fibrous band, and, as the child grows&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgqs.dratef.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgqs.dratef.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgqs.dratef.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgqs.dratef.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgqs.dratef.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surgqs.dratef.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264,"href":"https:\/\/surgqs.dratef.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgqs.dratef.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgqs.dratef.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgqs.dratef.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}