Spinal Dysraphism in Achondroplasia

Phadke, RV; Phadke, Shubha R.; Chakravarti, AL

doi:10.1159/000120500

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“…Postlaminectomy recurrences are not rare. Two much rarer neurologic entities described in achondroplasia are tethered cord [Phadke et al, 1990], and brain tumor [1 case] [McArdle et al, 1984].…”

Section: Achondroplasiamentioning

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Neurologic abnormalities in the skeletal dysplasias: A clinical and radiological perspective

Lachman

1997

Am. J. Med. Genet.

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The neurologic manifestations of the skeletal dysplasias are reviewed. Three important major groups are identified: Achondroplasia (cranio-cervical junction problems in infancy, spinal stenosis and neurogenic claudication in the adult). Type II collagenopathies (upper cervical spine anatomic and functional problems), and craniotubular and sclerosing bone dysplasias (osseous overgrowth with foraminal obstruction problems). The remainder of the well-identified 150 or so bone dysplasias are also evaluated in depth for their diverse neurologic abnormalities. The findings discussed are important both for the diagnosis and management of these patients.

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Section: Achondroplasiamentioning

confidence: 99%

Neurologic abnormalities in the skeletal dysplasias: A clinical and radiological perspective

Lachman

1997

Am. J. Med. Genet.

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“…Rather, because it was widely associated with European sexual modernity, the couple was normalized to function within the constraints of the Indian joint family, albeit as the developmentalist locus of a self-styled liberal ‘democratic’ form of emotional attachment. By deploying the individualizing genre of the romance novel to represent coupled love as simultaneously universal and caste-supremacist, Phadke's work shows how love is ‘more a phantom of liberalism—now you see it, now you don’t—than an actual necessity of it’ (Povinelli, 2006: 181). Though often conceptualized as freedom from non-modern social constraints, romantic love does not organically depend on liberal democracy but is a ‘moving target developed in Empire and used to secure power in the contemporary world’ (ibid.).…”

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The sciences of love: Intimate ‘democracy’ and the eugenic development of the Marathi couple in colonial India

Sequeira

2022

History of the Human Sciences

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This article studies the eugenic theories of Marathi sexological writer and novelist Narayan Sitaram Phadke, and his attempts to domesticate the modern ideal of the adult romantic couple as a yardstick of ‘emotional democracy’ in late colonial India. Locating Phadke's work against the backdrop of the Child Marriage Restraint Act (1929) and its eugenicist concerns, I argue that he conceptualized romantic love as an emotion and a form of sociability central to the state's biopolitical schemes of ensuring modern coupledom but as exceeding the state's capacity to rationally order Indian sex life. Consequently, he crafted literary supplements like the bildungsroman to circulate ‘English’ idioms of emotional and corporeal intimacy in Marathi; his novels domesticated eugenic sexology for its ‘vernacular’ audiences by advocating caste-bound romantic love as the blueprint for Indian marital coupling. As exemplified by Phadke's work, an emerging Marathi discourse of love demarcated a space for the young couple to operate as a vehicle of interpersonal openness within the constraints of the upper-caste joint family. By outlining the parameters of this Brahmanical aesthetic discourse, I show that the couple became the locus of a self-styled ‘democratic’ form of emotional attachment aimed at developing a necessary dynamism within endogamous caste-based marital arrangements without radically transforming them. The science performed through the Marathi novel in the 1920s and 1930s consequently explains the increasing prominence of romantic love as a form of developmental ‘democratic’ discourse at a time when both romantic love and democracy-in-practice were widely experienced as absent from Indian society.

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Dwarfism, occult spinal dysraphism, and presacral myxopapillary ependymoma with an epidermoid cyst in a child

Tubbs¹,

Kelly²,

Mroczek‐Musulman³

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Acta Neurochir (Wien)

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The authors present a case of a child with dwarfism that was noted to be developmentally delayed. Imaging revealed atlantoaxial instability, occult spinal dysraphism, and a presacral mass. Histopathology of the presacral lesion was that of a myxopapillary ependymoma with epidermoid cyst. We believe this to be the first report in the extant medical literature of this constellation of findings in the same patient. However, there are rare reports indicating a possible association of occult spinal dysraphism and the simultaneous occurrence of spinal ependymomas. Further case reports are necessary to discern whether these pathological entities are true low rate associations that the clinician should consider in their evaluation of these patients.

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Spinal Dysraphism in Achondroplasia

Abstract: The neurological complications in achondroplasia are commonly due to spinal canal stenosis. A case with rare coexistence of achondroplasia and dysraphic condition of the spine is presented wherein the neurological problem was presumably due to the latter.

Cited by 8 publications

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Neurologic abnormalities in the skeletal dysplasias: A clinical and radiological perspective

Neurologic abnormalities in the skeletal dysplasias: A clinical and radiological perspective

The sciences of love: Intimate ‘democracy’ and the eugenic development of the Marathi couple in colonial India

Dwarfism, occult spinal dysraphism, and presacral myxopapillary ependymoma with an epidermoid cyst in a child

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