ArticleChild's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery2026
Diagnostic techniques and detailed assessment of fetal intraspinal lipoma: a prospective study.
Article in Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
Abstract
purposeTo explore the technical methods and advantages of prenatal diagnosis of fetal intraspinal lipomas.
methodsThis was a prospective study. From August 2018 to August 2024, 315 fetuses suspected of having spinal neural tube malformations after conducting prenatal ultrasound were treated at the Neurosurgery Outpatient Department of the First Medical Center of the PLA General Hospital. Fetal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) examinations were performed within 72 h after the ultrasound diagnosis. A total of 186 singleton pregnancies where fetuses have already been born were selected. MRI was performed within 1 month after birth. Using postnatal MRI as the gold standard, 58 fetuses diagnosed with intraspinal lipoma through postnatal MRI were selected. The diagnostic coincidence rates of prenatal ultrasound and fetal MRI in the prenatal diagnosis of intraspinal lipomas were analyzed.
resultsPrenatal ultrasound correctly diagnosed 35 cases (35/58, 60.3%), and fetal MRI correctly diagnosed 49 cases (49/58, 84.5%). This difference was statistically significant (P = 0.004). Among the 58 cases of fetal intraspinal lipomas, 11 were of caudal type (11/58,19.0%), eight of dorsal type (8/58, 13.8%), ten of transitional type (10/58, 17.2%), 23 of mixed type (23/58, 39.7%), and six of lipoma myelomeningocele type (6/58, 10.3%). Among these, ten cases (10/58, 17.2%) were correctly diagnosed by prenatal ultrasound and 25 (25/58, 43.1%) using fetal MRI. This difference was statistically significant (P = 0.002).
conclusionsFetal MRI can accurately diagnose intraspinal lipomas and has diagnostic value for different types of intraspinal lipomas.
Indexed as
Identifiers
42283911What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.