PREDICTIVE VALUE OF SPINAL BONE ANOMALIES FOR SPINAL CORD ABNORMALITIES IN PATIENTS WITH ANORECTAL MALFORMATIONS
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Giacomo Esposito, Giorgia Totonelli, Francesco Morini, Giorgia Contini, Paolo Palma, Giovanni Mosiello, Daniela Longo, Paolo Maria Schingo, Carlo Efisio Marras, Pietro Bagolan, Barbara Daniela Iacobelli
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Aim: To evaluate the correlation between sacral/vertebral anomalies and spinal cord anomalies (SCA) on MRI, in patients with anorectal malformation (ARM).
Methods: Patients with ARM consecutively treated between January 1999 and August 2019 were included. Radiological imaging of sacrum and spine were retrospectively analyzed and correlated to the presence of SCA at MRI. Fisher's exact test and X2 test were used as appropriate; p
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