Significant clinical and radiological resolution of a spinal cord syrinx following the release of a tethered cord in a patient with an anatomically normal conus medullaris. Case report

Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 396-398

  Caird, John ^a   Flynn, Peter ^a   McConnell, Robert S ^a  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conus medullaris; Filum terminale; Syringomyelia; Syrinx; Tethered cord syndrome

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONUS MEDULLARIS; FECES INCONTINENCE; FILUM TERMINALE; HUMAN; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; NOCTURNAL ENURESIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TETHERED CORD SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CHILD; HUMANS; MALE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 43449108571     PISSN: 19330707     EISSN: 19330715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/PED/2008/1/5/396     Document Type: Article

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