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ISRN Obstetrics and Gynecology
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 175916, 3 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.5402/2011/175916
Case Report

The “Lasso Sign”: An Early Sonographic Sign of Posterior Meningocele

Alina Weissmann-Brenner,1 Zeev Feldman,2 and Yaron Zalel1

1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel HaShomer 52621, Israel
2Pediatric Neurosurgery Unit, The Edmond and Lily Safra Children's Hospital, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel HaShomer 52621, Israel

Received 20 August 2010; Accepted 22 September 2010

Academic Editor: A. Herman

Copyright © 2011 Alina Weissmann-Brenner et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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