PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Lendon, R G
AU  - Wynne-Davies, R
AU  - Lendon, M
TI  - Are congenital vertebral anomalies and spina bifida cystica aetiologically related?
AID  - 10.1136/jmg.18.6.424
DP  - 1981 Dec 01
TA  - Journal of Medical Genetics
PG  - 424--427
VI  - 18
IP  - 6
4099  - http://jmg.bmj.com/content/18/6/424.short
4100  - http://jmg.bmj.com/content/18/6/424.full
SO  - J Med Genet1981 Dec 01; 18
AB  - Radiological records of 104 patients with multiple vertebral anomalies without apparent spina bifida and 112 infants with spina bifida cystica were surveyed and the incidences of hemivertebrae and of rib, vertebral body, and vertebral arch fusions were recorded. The distributions of these four anomalies along the vertebral axis were found not to be statistically different between the two age groups. This is additional evidence to support the hypothesis that multiple vertebral anomalies and anencephaly-spina bifida cystica are aetiologically related.