Correlation between Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Surgical Findings in the Tethered Spinal Cord
作者:
Nazih Moufarrij,
Joann Palmer,
Joseph Hahn,
Meredith Weinstein,
期刊:
Neurosurgery
(OVID Available online 1989)
卷期:
Volume 25,
issue 3
页码: 341-346
ISSN:0148-396X
年代: 1989
出版商: OVID
关键词: Filum terminale;Lipoma;Magnetic resonance imaging;Tethered spinal cord
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
&NA;Between October 1982 and August 1987, 20 patients underwent magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and subsequent surgical release of a tethered spinal cord. The tethering was caused by a thick filum terminale in 6 patients. On MRI scans, the conus medullaris was at L4 in 2 patients, at L2 in 3 patients, and the filum terminale appeared thick in 1 patient. The spinal cord was tethered to an intradural lipoma correctly demonstrated by MRI in 6 patients. Increased epidural fat was misdiagnosed as an intradural lipoma in one patient and a lipomatous stalk was not identified in 2 other patients. Scar tissue resulting from repair of a meningocele had tethered the cord in the remaining 8 patients. On MRI scans, the conus medullaris was located between L3 and S3; in 5 of the patients, scar tissue was apparent on the MRI scan. This correlative study supports the use of MRI as the initial, and possibly the only, imaging modality when a tethered spinal cord is suspected. Improved or more recent MRI techniques will help demonstrate these anomalies better. (Neurosurgery25:341‐346, 1989)
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