Mature Spinal Teratoma Associated With Thickened Filum Terminale-Case Report-
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Mature spinal teratoma associated with thickened filum terminale.
A 30-year-old man presented with an intradural spinal teratoma with thickened filum terminale manifesting as urinary and sexual disturbances, and low back pain persisting for 4 years. Spinal magnetic resonance imaging revealed thickened filum terminale containing a heterogeneously enhanced intradural lesion extending from the L-3 to L-4 levels and in contact with the conus medullaris. The filum...
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عنوان ژورنال: Neurologia medico-chirurgica
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0470-8105,1349-8029
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.45.375