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Neurological Research and Practice, 2021 We report on a case of a 52-year-old male with sudden paraparesis. The initial MRI showed contrast enhancement of the conus medullaris and the complete cauda equina.
Benedict Breitling +3 more
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Neurologic improvement after thoracic, thoracolumbar, and lumbar spinal cord (conus medullaris) injuries [PDF]
, 2011 Study Design. Retrospective. Objective. With approximately 10,000 new spinal cord injury (SCI) patients in the United States each year, predicting public health outcomes is an important public health concern.
Albert, MD, Todd +8 more
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Threshold Selection Criteria for Quantification of Lumbosacral Cerebrospinal Fluid and Root Volumes from MRI [PDF]
, 2014 BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The high variability of CSF volumes partly explains the inconsistency of anesthetic effects, but may also be due to image analysis itself. In this study, criteria for threshold selection are anatomically defined.
Castedo, Julio +5 more
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International Journal of Biomedical Imaging, 2011 Aim. To determine the level of the conus medullaris-Tuffier's line, and conus medullaris-Tuffier's line distance using imaging and evaluate their relation to age and gender. Methods.
Maryam Rahmani +6 more
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Extramedullary Conus Ependymoma Involving a Lumbar Nerve Root with Filum Terminale Attachment
Clinical Medicine Insights: Case Reports, 2015 Purpose In the current report, we describe a case of an extramedullary ependymoma involving a lumbar nerve root near conus medullaris. Spinal ependymomas commonly present as intramedullary tumors in the cervical or thoracic cord or as tumors arising from
Takashi Moriwaki +4 more
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Neurenteric cyst of the conus medullaris [PDF]
Surgical Neurology International, 2018 Neurenteric cysts (NECs) are rare developmental malformations of the central nervous system (CNS) which originate as benign congenital lesions. They originate from developmental foregut precursors, and are presumed to be the result of abnormal partitioning of the embryonic notochord plate.
Diaz-Aguilar, D. +10 more
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BMC Neurology, 2019 Background Spontaneous conus medullaris infarction is a rare disease. We describe two patients with spontaneous conus medullaris infarction presenting as acute cauda equina syndrome and their unique electromyography (EMG) findings.
Yi-Ching Weng +3 more
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Spine Surgery and Related Research, 2019 Introduction: Conus medullaris syndrome (CMS) is a rare pathology. The conus medullaris is located at the end of the spinal cord and continues to the cauda equina.
Tetsuji Inoue
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Intramedullary schwannoma of conus medullaris with syringomyelia
Asian Journal of Surgery, 2017 Intramedullary schwannomas of the spinal cord are rare tumors. They are most commonly observed in the cervical region; however, few have been described in the conus medullaris. The association of intramedullary schwannomas with syringomyelia is also rare.
Mete Karatay +5 more
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Intrathecal metastases causing conus medullaris syndrome [PDF]
QJM, 2013 A 64-year-old man with metastatic esophageal cancer presented to the hospital complaining of 3 days of low back pain, right leg paresthesias and urinary hesitancy. Pain worsened with Valsalva maneuver. He denied saddle anesthesia. Lumbar spine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) demonstrated a 2 cm enhancing mass in the conus medullaris (Figure 1, arrow ...
J J, Liang, S H, Kizilbash, P, Haluska
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