Diagnosis and treatment of diastematomyelia in children: a perspective cohort study.

Study Design: Cohort study.

Objectives: The objectives of this study were examination, observation and surgical interventions of pediatric patients with diastematomyelia, a rare congenital deformity of the spinal cord.

Setting: Spine surgery and neurosurgery clinic under ministry of health, the Russian Federation.

A case study of occipital outgrowth: a rare suboccipital abnormality.

Purpose: To describe the clinical and radiological characteristics of uncommon upper cervical spine abnormality in children.

Methods: Clinical and diagnostic characteristics of three patients aged 6-12 years with a similar uncommon type of occipital anomaly are described. The patients were admitted in 2007, 2009, and 2014, respectively.