Tethered Spinal Cord Following Meningomyelocele Repair
- 1 April 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Radiology
- Vol. 131 (1) , 153-160
- https://doi.org/10.1148/131.1.153
Abstract
Of 16 consecutive patients with tethered spinal cord studied, most had undergone repair of a meningomyelocele. All were evaluated using somatosensory evoked potentials at 6-12 mo. intervals. Other possibilities include tethered filum terminale, lipomeningocele, membrana reuniens and miscellaneous conditions (diastematomyelia, neurenteric cysts, etc.). Metrizamide myelography with polytomography was superior to gas myelography in showing a low-lying cord, obtuse nerve root angles, and a thin subarachnoid space between the cord and the dorsal meninges cephalad to the tether. Surgery is generally helpful in these patients.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- The Tethered Spinal Cord: Its Protean Manifestations, Diagnosis and Surgical CorrectionPediatric Neurosurgery, 1976