A First-Year Surgery Resident Sees a Child with a Skin-Covered

Multiple Choice

A first-year surgery resident sees a child with a skin-covered neural tube defect.The chief resident says that the defect was caused by abnormal secondary neurulation.Assuming this is true,at what level of the CNS would the defect occur?

A) Brain
B) Upper cervical spinal cord
C) Lower cervical spinal cord
D) Upper thoracic spinal cord
E) Lower thoracic spinal cord
F) Lumbosacral and/or coccygeal spinal cord