title: Diastematomyelia in a geriatric patient.
abstract: The discovery of diastematomyelia in a geriatric patient is a rare occurrence. A 76-year-old woman with this entity was not diagnosed until she developed superimposed motor neuron disease.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009046:Motor Neurons; D009436:Neural Tube Defects / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D009468:Neuromuscular Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D011859:Radiography