Diastematomyelia 

Jayprakash Shah, MD

Ahmedabad, India.

This is a G2P1 woman with no relevant past obstetrical history. A scan performed at 22 weeks revealed:

• An echogenic mass in the spinal canal just anterior to a vertebral body at the level of T12-L1 with the overlying skin intact
• No signs to suggest meningomyelocele
• No cranial signs of spina bifida (Arnold Chiari ruled out)
• Normal limbs with normal movements
• Fetal echocardiography was normal
• No other associated anomalies

The diagnosis was a diastematomyelia.