Feasibility and limitations of the preoperative diagnosis of meningocele

: The paper is concerned with clinical and x-ray analysis, performed in 10 patients (9 women and 1 man) aged 40 to 50, with meningocele, a congenital abnormality. The final diagnosis of this disease was made possible only by means of transthoracic needle biopsy of cerebrospinal fluid, which was effectively performed in 5 patients.