Fatty filum terminale: assessment with MR imaging.
Five cases of fatty filum terminale were encountered in a retrospective analysis of 332 routine lumbosacral magnetic resonance studies. The T1-weighted and GRASS images were particularly useful in evaluating the filum. An irregularly thickened fatty filum, especially if associated with a low conus, is likely to be pathologic and responsible for a patient's symptoms and signs.
Okumura
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R
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan.
Minami
S
S
Asato
R
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Konishi
J
J
D000328:Adult; D002420:Cauda Equina / Q000473:pathology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008067:Lipoma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010524:Peripheral Nervous System Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D016136:Spina Bifida Occulta / Q000175:diagnosis