However, other studies suggest spina bifida occulta is not always harmless.

A systematic review of radiographic research studies found no relationship between spina bifida occulta and back pain.

One study found, among patients with back pain, severity is worse if spina bifida occulta is present.

By definition, spina bifida occulta means hidden split spine.

Reports have been published about spina bifida occulta in anaesthesia management and cervical kyphoscoliosis in intubations.

The incidence of spina bifida occulta is approximately 10% of the population, and most people are diagnosed incidentally from spinal X-rays.

The genetic risk of recurrence with symptomatic forms of Spina Bifida Occulta is uncertain.

However, it may be a sign of Spina bifida: even so this is usually the spina bifida occulta form which is the least serious kind.

NTDs include spina bifida occulta and aperta, encephalocele, and-in the extreme case-anencephaly.

Relatively minor congenital abnormalities of the spine were found in 19 skeletons, ten of which were cases of spina bifida occulta.

Spina bifida is further divided into two subclasses, spina bifida cystica and spina bifida occulta.

The congenital absence of the gluteal muscle was described in 1976, as occurring in a brother and sister with absence of gluteal muscles and with spina bifida occulta.

These include pes planus, clubfoot, scoliosis and/or kyphosis, pectus abnormalities, cubitus valgus, congenital hip dysplasia, spina bifida occulta, and genu valgus.

He was born with a mild undiagnosed case of spina bifida occulta, a disorder of the spinal column, which gave him lifelong pain-a factor in his later abuse of alcohol and drugs.

Dr. Redlich theorizes that Hitler may have thought his physical abnormalities - his hypospadia and spina bifida occulta - were signs that he had inherited syphilis from his father.

Spina bifida malformations fall into three categories: spina bifida occulta, spina bifida cystica with meningocele, and spina bifida cystica with myelomeningocele.

The most frequently seen form of spina bifida occulta is when parts of the bones of the spine, called the spinous process, and the neural arch appear abnormal on a radiogram, and is generally harmless.

He believes that Hitler probably had both spina bifida occulta - a not uncommon hereditary condition that is largely symptomless, but can cause difficulties in urination and frequent bladder infections - and hypospadia, an abnormally placed urethra.

In most infants with diastrophic dysplasia, there is also incomplete closure of bones of the spinal column (spina bifida occulta) within the neck area and the upper portion of the back (lower cervical and upper thoracic vertebrae).

Neural Tube Defect SB Spina Bifida Cystica Spina Bifida Occulta Spina bifida is characterized by incomplete closure of certain bones of the spinal column (vertebrae), leaving a portion of the spinal cord exposed.

Spinal abnormalities, e.g. intramedullary dermoid cysts may arise more frequently in the lumbosacral region (quite often at the level of the conus medullaris) and may be seen with other congenital anomalies of the spine including posterior spina bifida occulta as identified by the neuroradiological analysis.