Background & Aim: Tethered spinal cord is the most prevalent anatomical deformity, usually diagnosed in childhood. The present study aimed to describe the different anatomo-radiological patterns of the tethered spinal cord with lipoma. Methods & Materials/Patients: We conducted a retrospective descriptive study in the Neurosurgery Department of General Grand Yoff Hospital and the Neurosurgical...

Spinal neurenteric cysts are rare congenital cysts of endodermal origin. A 34 years old man presented with burning feet syndrome of two years duration. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed an intradural extramedullary cystic mass lesion extending from L2 to L5 vertebrae causing severe compression and displacement of terminal portion of conus medullaris and filum terminale to the right side...

The utility of the tethered aminohydroxylation (TA) has been demonstrated by synthesis of the complex β-amino acid residue of microsclerodermins A and B. The TA provided a regio- and stereoselective functionalization of a complex homoallylic alcohol. The route includes late-stage introduction of the aliphatic side chain via a cuprate addition and cross metathesis, a tactic designed to render th...

Overt psychological, neurological and haematological abnormalities were present in a 35 year old Jamaican female diagnosed as having idiopathic periodic hypothermia. Although symptoms and signs were ameliorated by warming, no long term satisfactory therapeutic measure was identified. Despite extensive clinical and subsequently histological investigation no cause for the hypothermia was found al...

We present an illustrative case of osteoid osteoma of the femur, in an 11 year old male child where the clinical features were masquerading the diagnosis of tethered cord syndrome and lead to the delay in diagnosis.

To investigate effects of surgical treatment on adult tethered cord syndrome (TCS).A retrospective analysis of 82 adult patients (17 male cases, 82% and 24 female cases, 59%) with TCS treated by surgery was conducted between March, 2005 and December, 2015, with an average age of 31.6 years and average disease course of 6.7 years. All the 82 cases of patients received nerve electrophysiology mon...

STUDY DESIGN Fifty patients surgically treated for tethered cord syndrome (TCS) were retrospectively studied at Liaquat National Hospital, Karachi from 2010 until 2014. PURPOSE To assess the common presentations of TCS in our part of the world and the surgical outcome of the different presentations. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE TCS is a stretch-induced functional disorder of the spinal cord with ...

©2008, World J Pediatr. All rights reserved. A female, born after normal pregnancy and labor, was referred for consultation for a 1-cm long fi brous appendage in the midline of her lumbosacral region one day after birth (Fig. 1). Although she was neurologically intact, computed tomography at 3 months revealed L4-L5 spina bifi da (Fig. 2A), and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed a low conus...

Presented here is a case of fourteen year old female with diagnosis of Tethered Cord Syndrome (TCS) having type II Split Cord (Diplomyelia-D 12 to L, vertebral level) with dermoid cyst at the split cord site (L,-L, vertebral level). She presented with acute onset paraplegia with sphincteric involvement. She was having asymptomatic patent ductus artJ!reosus. After investigations, she was operate...