The Results of Clinical Examination of Children About One Year With Spinal Hernia
Galimzhan Mamirbekovich Yelikbayev and Aigerim Aitbayevna Tutayeva

Department of Surgical diseases, International Kazakh-Turkish University K..A.Yassawi, 161200 Turkestan, Kazakhstan, International Kazakh-Turkish University K..A.Yassawi, B. Sattarkhanov 29.

Abstract: To study the main clinical symptom of spinal hernias with different variants of their location,shapes and combination of defects.Examination of 30 children with spinal hernias treated at the Department of Neurosurgery of the regional children’s hospital in Shymkent for 2013 - 2015. The age of patients ranged from 1 day to 1 year. The age of patients ranged from 1 day to 1 year. Of these, 12 were boys, girls - 18. Children from birth to 1 month amounted to - 17 (56.6%), from 1 month to 3 months - 8 (26.6%) from 3 months to 6 months - 3 (10.0%), from 6 months to 1 year - 2 (6.7%). Among patients with spinal hernias accounted for most of the children with myelomeningocele (63.3%). A number of children with spinal hernia on the periphery of herniation within healthy skin and pilosity observed vascular pattern (50%). Children under 1 year with spinal hernias observed neurological changes of the lower extremities (paraparesis - 63.3%, paraplegia - 16.6%), pelvic disorders (70.5%) and the combination with other anomalies and malformations (hydrocephalus - 93.3%, bilateral clubfoot - 30.0%, congenital dislocation of the hip joint -13.3%, exotropia - 10,0%).

Keywords: Spinal hernias; malformations; Children; Myelodysplasia; Congenital anomalies

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