Aims As awareness and frequency of tethered spinal cord (TSC) related to occult spinal
dysraphism (OSD) has increased with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), variability exists …

Lipomyelomeningocele represents a rare but complex neurological disorder that may
present with neurological deterioration secondary to an inherent tethered spinal cord …

Background To report this author's experience with patients with a congenital spinal
lipomatous malformation with special emphasis on variations in clinical presentation …

OBJECTIVE Among patients with a history of prior lipomyelomeningocele repair, an
association between increased lumbosacral angle (LSA) and cord retethering has been …

Objective Conus region lumbosacral lipomas (LSLs) are highly heterogeneous in their
morphology, clinical presentation, and outcome, with an incompletely understood natural …

Tethered cord syndrome is a condition in which the spinal cord is tethered by pathological
structures such as a tight filum terminale, intradural lipomas with or without a connecting …

Advances and Technical Standards in Neurosurgery (ATSN) represents the successful
achievement of the wish of Jean Brihaye, Bernard Pertuised, Fritz Loew, and Hugo …

PUNCHAK and colleagues present a single-center retrospective cohort study of 72 patients
less than 1 year of age who underwent surgery for complex tethered cord over a 14.5-year …

Objective Retethering is not an unusual operation for a congenital lumbosacral dysraphic
spinal lesion. The present study aimed to assess a new surgical technique for preventing …

Purpose Our goal was to validate the hypothesis that the lumbosacral angle (LSA) increases
in children with spinal dysraphism who present with progressive symptoms and signs of …