Complete Lumbar Spine Duplication in a Neurologically Intact Man
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Neurologically normal complete asymmetric lumbar spine duplication.
Spine duplication, which is at the severe end of the split cord malformation, is rarely seen. Radiographic, CT, and MR images of a 15-year-old girl who had lower back pain showed asymmetric lumbar spine duplication with spinal cord tethering secondary to a filum lipoma in the sacrum. Despite gross spinal abnormalities, the patient was neurologically intact and has been followed up with conserva...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1079-0268,2045-7723
DOI: 10.1080/10790268.2009.11760759