Spinal dysraphisms (from the Greek dys = bad, raphe = closure, suture) include a large group of pathologies of varying severity (spina bifida occulta, diastematomelia, lipomeningocele, meningocele, myelomeningocele, caudal regression syndrome) in which there is a developmental anomaly involving the vertebral column and spinal cord (due to an alteration in the closure of the “neural tube”). See the fact sheet ”
Tethered cord syndrome “.
