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A Novel Case of Tethered Cord in a Five-Month-Old Male With Pallister-Killian Syndrome
A five-month-old male presented with an incidentally found low-lying conus medullaris on ultrasound and subsequent MRI demonstrating its position at L4. Pre-operative examination findings included mild, global hypotonia and a coccygeal dimple without bladder or bowel abnormalities or spasticity. The...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7704268/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33269168 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11240 |
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author | Gigliotti, Michael J Tachie-Baffour, Yaw Jafrani, Ryan J Lane, Jessica Rizk, Elias |
author_facet | Gigliotti, Michael J Tachie-Baffour, Yaw Jafrani, Ryan J Lane, Jessica Rizk, Elias |
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description | A five-month-old male presented with an incidentally found low-lying conus medullaris on ultrasound and subsequent MRI demonstrating its position at L4. Pre-operative examination findings included mild, global hypotonia and a coccygeal dimple without bladder or bowel abnormalities or spasticity. The patient underwent spinal cord untethering with a section of filum terminale and was discharged without complication following his procedure. Follow-up at one year revealed continued baseline hypotonia without further neurosurgical needs. This is the first reported case of tethered cord syndrome described in a patient with Pallister-Killian syndrome managed successfully with neurosurgical intervention. |
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spelling | pubmed-77042682020-12-01 A Novel Case of Tethered Cord in a Five-Month-Old Male With Pallister-Killian Syndrome Gigliotti, Michael J Tachie-Baffour, Yaw Jafrani, Ryan J Lane, Jessica Rizk, Elias Cureus Neurosurgery A five-month-old male presented with an incidentally found low-lying conus medullaris on ultrasound and subsequent MRI demonstrating its position at L4. Pre-operative examination findings included mild, global hypotonia and a coccygeal dimple without bladder or bowel abnormalities or spasticity. The patient underwent spinal cord untethering with a section of filum terminale and was discharged without complication following his procedure. Follow-up at one year revealed continued baseline hypotonia without further neurosurgical needs. This is the first reported case of tethered cord syndrome described in a patient with Pallister-Killian syndrome managed successfully with neurosurgical intervention. Cureus 2020-10-29 /pmc/articles/PMC7704268/ /pubmed/33269168 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11240 Text en Copyright © 2020, Gigliotti et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Neurosurgery Gigliotti, Michael J Tachie-Baffour, Yaw Jafrani, Ryan J Lane, Jessica Rizk, Elias A Novel Case of Tethered Cord in a Five-Month-Old Male With Pallister-Killian Syndrome |
title | A Novel Case of Tethered Cord in a Five-Month-Old Male With Pallister-Killian Syndrome |
title_full | A Novel Case of Tethered Cord in a Five-Month-Old Male With Pallister-Killian Syndrome |
title_fullStr | A Novel Case of Tethered Cord in a Five-Month-Old Male With Pallister-Killian Syndrome |
title_full_unstemmed | A Novel Case of Tethered Cord in a Five-Month-Old Male With Pallister-Killian Syndrome |
title_short | A Novel Case of Tethered Cord in a Five-Month-Old Male With Pallister-Killian Syndrome |
title_sort | novel case of tethered cord in a five-month-old male with pallister-killian syndrome |
topic | Neurosurgery |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7704268/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33269168 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11240 |
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