| NEUROIMAGING |
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| Year : 2021 | Volume
: 16
| Issue : 2 | Page : 163-164 |
An unusual case of a conus hanging by a thread
Panikar Wadhera, Saritha Aryan, Sumit Thakar
Department of Neurosurgery, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Correspondence Address:
Dr. Sumit Thakar
Department of Neurosurgery, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences, EPIP Area, Whitefield, Bengaluru 560066, Karnataka.
India
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DOI: 10.4103/jpn.JPN_131_20
We report a rare cause of paraparesis in a 2-year-old girl. Along with lower limb weakness, she presented with a neurogenic bladder and lower limb deformities. Her magnetic resonance imaging showed multiple dorsolumbar segmentation defects and a dysgenetic spinal cord segment between T10 and S1. A thin septum connected the lower end of the normal cord to a bulky conus at S1-2. These features were suggestive of type 1 segmental spinal dysgenesis. The findings were confirmed at surgery, and the child was referred for supportive care.
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