CONGENITAL ATRESIA AND STENOSIS OF THE AQUEDUCT OF SYLVIUS
- 1 August 1936
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Neurology & Psychiatry
- Vol. 36 (2) , 248-263
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archneurpsyc.1936.02260080020002
Abstract
The first recorded anatomic observation of a congenitally occluded aqueduct of Sylvius was made by Hilton in 1847.1However, Hilton limited his report to a gross description of the occlusion. Since then fairly detailed studies of a considerable number of cases of aqueductal occlusion or stenosis have been reported by Spiller,2Guthrie,3Schlapp and Gere,4Dandy and Blackfan,5de Lange,6Shelden, Parker and Kernohan,7Orton8and others.9A surprisingly large number of the patients were adults and older children; only a few were infants in the first months of life. Only a few of the patients showed other developmental anomalies. The six cases to be described here represent instances of congenital obliteration or narrowing of the iter in very young infants who presented also other developmental abnormalities, such as spina bifida with meningocele or meningomyelocele, clubfoot, webbing and misdirection of theKeywords
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