OBJECTIVE: Our objective is to discuss neonatal spine sonography with emphasis on imaging pitfalls and normal variants that may simulate disease and to distinguish them from true spinal disorders. CONCLUSION: Sonography of the neonatal spine is now accepted as a highly sensitive, readily available screening study that can be used to evaluate various anomalies of the lumbar spine in most infants younger than 4 months.
OBJECTIVE: Our objective is to discuss neonatal spine sonography with emphasis on imaging pitfalls and normal variants that may simulate disease and to distinguish them from true spinal disorders. CONCLUSION: Sonography of the neonatal spine is now accepted as a highly sensitive, readily available screening study that can be used to evaluate various anomalies of the lumbar spine in most infants younger than 4 months.
Authors: Vidyadhar V Upasani; Pamela Deaver Ketwaroo; Judy A Estroff; Benjamin C Warf; John B Emans; Michael P Glotzbecker Journal: World J Orthop Date: 2016-07-18