Skip to main content

Medical Subject Headings

Search from vocabulary

Content language

Concept information

Nervous System Diseases > Nervous System Malformations > Neural Tube Defects
Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities > Congenital Abnormalities > Nervous System Malformations > Neural Tube Defects

Preferred term

Neural Tube Defects  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Narrower concepts

Entry terms

  • Developmental Defects, Neural Tube
  • Developmental Neural Tube Defects
  • Neural Tube Developmental Defects

Note

  • do not confuse entry term SPINAL CORD MYELODYSPLASIA with MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES, a defect of bone marrow formation

Scope note

  • Congenital malformations of the central nervous system and adjacent structures related to defective neural tube closure during the first trimester of pregnancy generally occurring between days 18-29 of gestation. Ectodermal and mesodermal malformations (mainly involving the skull and vertebrae) may occur as a result of defects of neural tube closure. (From Joynt, Clinical Neurology, 1992, Ch55, pp31-41)

History note

  • 1979; for DIASTEMATOMYELIA and TETHERED CORD SYNDROME use SPINA BIFIDA OCCULTA 1991-1999; for NEURENTERIC CYST use SPINA BIFIDA OCCULTA 1991-1999, use NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS 1979-1990

In other languages

  • hermostoputken sulkeutumishäiriöt

    Finnish

  • hermostoputken sulkeutumishäiriö
  • keskushermostoputken sulkeutumishäiriö
  • keskushermostoputken sulkeutumishäiriöt
  • neuraaliputken sulkeutumishäiriö
  • neuraaliputken sulkeutumishäiriöt
  • Neuralrörsdefekter

    Swedish

  • Akrani
  • Delad ryggmärg
  • Diastematomyeli
  • Exencefali
  • Fjättrad ryggmärg
  • Neuroenterisk cysta

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D009436

Download this concept:

RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD Created 5/15/78, last modified 7/3/12