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Abstract
Meningocele with aberrant nerve tissue is a rare variantof Spina bifida that requires scrupulous diagnostic examina-tion before surgery. Case report presented by us with menin-gocele aberrant neural tissue belongs to a newborn who wasdiagnosed with Spina bifida in the first hours after birth.After proper clinical neurological examination and magneticresonance imaging, the patient underwent neurosurgeryshortly after birth (48 hours) - excision of the cyst and repair-ing damaged tissues. The obtained operative material wasexamined morphologically, using general morphological andimmunohistochemical methods after what the diagnosis of“Meningocele with aberrant neural tissue” was established.The case is interesting in terms of relative rarity and com-plexity of clinical diagnostics in patients with Spina bifida.Meningocele with aberrant neural tissue in the main cases isnot characterized by preoperative and postoperative neuro-logical disorders and is difficult to diagnose by general ex-amination. To make an accurate diagnosis, it is recommend-ed to perform a biopsy in the preoperative period and usethe general morphological and, if necessary, immunohis-tochemical method of the obtained material. Accordingly, itwill be possible to accurately diagnose in rare cases of Spinabifida, prevent spinal cord injury during neurosurgery, andavoid postoperative neurological complications