Tethered spinal cord syndrome is a rare neurological disorder where the spinal cord is attached, or tethered, to the tissues around the spine. This tethering of the spinal cord restricts its movements ...

About three weeks after her son was born, Erika Belt noticed a tiny red spot on his mid-back that was indented. “I asked my pediatrician about it at his 1-month checkup and she said she didn’t know ...

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 ...

Tethered Cord Compared to a Normal: (Top left) T2-weighted sagittal MRI in a patient with a tethered cord and lipoma; (Bottom left) T2-weighted axial MRI at the L4-L5 level in a patient with a ...

Tethering of the spinal cord is a condition in which the spinal cord becomes attached to the spinal column via surrounding structures. Normally, the spinal cord hangs loose in the canal, freely moving ...

A 67 year-old man presented with a life long history of bladder urgency and a 5 year history of progressive weakness and numbness of the lower extremities, worse on the left. His gait had become ...

You have full access to this article via your institution. Caudal appendages also occur as typical or frequent manifestations of certain syndromes. Very little imaging or surgical evidence exists ...

A neurological disorder which is caused by tissue attachments which tend to limit the movement of the spinal cord within the spinal column is known as the Tethered Spinal Cord Syndrome. These ...