A 19-year-old man presented with long lasting significant back and bilateral leg pain, and hypoesthesia on the lateral side of both his thighs for which he had undergone several courses of medication and bouts of physical therapy treatment. His urodynamic parameters were normal and lumbar magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed a low-lying conus at the L2-3 level with a thickened fatty filum,...

Background: Spinal cord tumors represent 2-4% of all CNS tumors. Ependymomas are the most frequent lesions spinal cord1. Gross total resection remains gold standard2. Method: We describe mini-invasive surgical technique using a fixed tubular retractor performed for an ependymoma filum terminale, along with its advantages and limits. Conclusion: This has shown to be safe effective terminale epen...

Editor: In the Talal Amer and Omran M. El-Shmam review published in your journal,1 there are two types of classification for Chiari I malformation: type A, which is associated with syringomyelia and type B, which is not associated with syringomyelia. Hans Chiari (1851–1916) first reported Chiari malformation (1891) morphologically as a cerebellar tonsillar herniation with occasional fourth vent...

Spinal cord oligodendrogliomas are rare pathologies of the spinal cord, and their location at conus and/or filum terminale is even rarer. There are only 7 spinal cord oligodendrogliomas reported in the literature. Our case is the eighth spinal cord oligodendrogliomas at this location.

Neurogenesis is a multifactorial event determined by local environmental cues, inherent cellular program as well as cellular milieu and may not necessarily be restricted to the SVZ and SGZ. NSCs have been isolated from or neurogenesis has been demonstrated in traditionally non neurogenic regions. This more permissive view of neurogenesis, however, is not widely accepted due to concerns regardin...

Filum terminale hemangioblastoma is an extremely rare tumour with only a few case reports in the literature. The natural history is unknown but benign as well as more aggressive presentations have been reported. The authors present the first such lesion discovered incidentally and discuss the available literature.