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Washington University Experience | DEVELOPMENTAL MALFORMATIONS | Myelomeningocele | 7A0 Case 7 History
This patient was a 5 month old boy born at 29 weeks of gestation with perinatal surgery for a thoracic myelomeningocele as part of Arnold-Chiari malformation. Over his long postsurgical course he developed multiple systemic infections culminating in pneumonia superimposed on chronic pulmonary disease.
