Gergin Omurilik Sendromu
Aşkın Görgülü, Sebahattin Çobanoğlu, Candan Hundemir, Birol Yanık
Article No:
8
Article Type :
Case Report
Twentyone patients with tethered cord syndrome treated by surgical intervention at Neurosurgery Department of Trakya University Hospital between April 1994-April 1999 were evaluated retrospectively. All cases except one were children. Tight filum terminale (761 %), lipomyelomeningocele (38 %), diastematomyelia (33.3 %), spinal dermal sinus (9.5 %) were the usual causes of tethering. Forteen (66.6 %) cases were smptomatic and seven (33.3 %) cases were asmptomatic. Skin lesions (66.6 %) and difficulty in walking were the major signs and symptoms at admission. Surgery was pe ıformed in 18 of the cases as primary intervention and 3 of them as secondary intervention. Seven asmptomatic cases were discharged without any neurological deficit. Two cases recovered completely. Six cases got better partially, but in six cases no change was observed. None of the patients got worse or died after surgery.
Keywords :
Diastematomyelia, lipomyelomeningocele, tethered cord syndrome
Dusunen Adam : The Journal of Psychiatry and Neurological Sciences :
2000;13:49-55
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