Scimitar sacrum.

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  • Jacob P Alappat
چکیده

A 48-year-old male patient with diabetes mellitus and retinitis pigmentosa was admitted with complaints of weakness of both lower limbs and urinary incontinence of 1year duration. Fundoscopy was suggestive of retinitis pigmentosa. On admission, the power in the legs was about Grade 2. Plain X-ray showed a sickle-shaped defect of the sacrum scimitar sacrum (Figure 1). MRI showed an anterior presacral meningocele with scalloping and dehiscence

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Neurology India

دوره 52 2  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2004