Surgery is the treatment of tethered spinal cord syndrome. If surgery is not advisable, spinal cord nerve roots may be cut to relieve pain. Written by : Meenakshi Chaudhary ...

MRI of the spine is a reliable investigation for the diagnosis of TCS. 2,4 In our case, MRI revealed a clearly distinguishable tethered cord associated with an intraspinal lipoma, and spina bifida ...

Tethered Cord: (Left) T1-weighted sagittal MRI; (Right) T2-weighted sagittal MRI. Note that the spinal cord ends below the L5 level and terminates in a lipoma (fat is bright on both T1- and ...

Some children are diagnosed with tethered cord syndrome at birth (what's known as a congenital condition), whereas others get symptoms of the condition as infants or during their early childhood.

A case report and a review of literature. To describe a rare case of adult onset tethered cord syndrome associated with intradural dermoid cyst. General Orthopedics, Japan. A 50-year-old woman was ...

ChatGPT diagnosed a child's tethered cord syndrome, ... Svetlana Iakusheva/Getty Images 2023-09-12T22:20 ... The doctor was able to pinpoint where Alex's spine was tethered on his MRI.

CLOVES syndrome, a rare genetic ... and tethered cord syndrome, ... Imaging studies such as MRI and CT scans are essential for assessing the extent of vascular malformations and skeletal ...

Tethered cord is a debilitating disorder that is poorly understood and hard to diagnose.I was missing a lot of school,” said 13-year-old Lucky Eschauzier of Braintree, Massachusetts.After a long ...