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20-MAY-2006 HANIN ALI BTAH 10 YEARS TETHERED CORD SYNDROME
Part-1
The patient was operated
06-April-2002
for extremely small posterior fossa with Arnold Chiari
malformation and did relatively well, until the last several months,
the dyspnoea attacks increased when bending the neck and the gait
started to deteriorate.
MRI of the cervico-medullary junction with cervical X-rays showed
no considerable changes. MRI of the lumbar spine showed tethered
cord. The patient still incontinent and difficult gait. with weak
left lower limb.
The patient was operated and laminectomy of L5 S1-2 was
performed. The functional spinal cord was extending down to the end
of the cul-de-sac with massive arachnoidal adhesions.
