Developmental anomalies of thoracic and lumbosacral vertebral column with diastematomyelia: case report
Kolasa, M.; Pyrich, M.; Siudziński, K.; Czekierda, W.; Paprzycki, W.
Neurologia i Neurochirurgia Polska 33(4): 923-933
1999
ISSN/ISBN: 0028-3843 PMID: 10612106 Document Number: 510105
Patient, 37-years old, female, admitted to Department of Neurology, with intensive lower back pain and weakness of right lower extremity. Radiological evaluation showed developmental anomalies of spinal cord and vertebral column, with double spinal cord Th10-S1. The mechanism of described clinical symptoms is due to affixed spinal cord syndrome. According to current literature we presented the mechanism of anomaly development. The above case was classified as the second type of split cord malformations.