Occult tight filum terminale syndrome: Results of surgical untethering

Pediatric Neurosurgery

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 51-57

  Wehby, Monica C ^a,b   O'Hollaren, Patrick S ^a   Abtin, Keyvan ^a   Hume, Jenny L ^a   Richards, Benjamin J ^a  

^a Legacy Emanuel Children's Hospital   (United States)

^b LEGACY EMANUEL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Encopresis; Enuresis; Filum terminale syndrome; Occult spinal dysraphism; Scoliosis; Spina bifida; Spine; Tethered cord syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLADDER INSTABILITY; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONSTIPATION; CYSTOURETHROGRAPHY; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEG; MALE; MUSCLE TONE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; OCCULT TIGHT FILUM TERMINALE SYNDROME; PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REFLEX DISORDER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYRINGOMYELIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASOUND; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE INCONTINENCE; URINE RETENTION;

ADOLESCENT; CAUDA EQUINA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LAMINECTOMY; LIGAMENTUM FLAVUM; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINA BIFIDA OCCULTA; URINARY BLADDER, NEUROGENIC;

EID: 4043063726     PISSN: 10162291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000078908     Document Type: Review

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