Metrizamide computed tomographic myelography demonstrates well: partial- and full-thickness diastematomyelia; the presence, shape, and (a)symmetry of the two hemicords; focal persistence of two anterior spinal arteries, one supplying each hemicord; the single or double subarachnoid space(s), arachnoid tubes, and dural tubes which encompass the hemicords; the dural septum formed by the medial wa...

OBJECTIVE Although fetal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is being increasingly used to evaluate sonographically suspected abnormalities, its utility in the evaluation of the spinal canal is not well studied. Because it is not susceptible to the limitations of fetal position, oligohydramnios, and shadowing from bony structures, we hypothesize that fetal MRI is better suited to assess the conten...

Sixty patients with congenital deformities of the spine were operated upon in the past fifteen years using a two-stage procedure. In the fifty patients with scoliosis half of the deformities were due to hemivertebrae and half to unilateral bars. The average correction of the deformity was 47 per cent. Early neurological signs observed in two patients with a diastematomyelia resolved. Of the ten...